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Example sentences for "pestering"

Lexicographically close words:
pest; peste; pestem; pester; pestered; pesthouse; pesticide; pesticides; pestiferous; pestilence
  1. Very soon they were pestering me again to marry at once.

  2. The air is of a temper neither too hot nor too cold, and in what is now rather the good gay wood than green wood, there are no longer pestering insects to worry the flesh and trouble the spirit.

  3. Are we ever going to camp out without that crowd pestering us like a flock of hornets?

  4. He could give a shrewd guess as to where the parties lay who took such delight in pestering himself and the chums, and he was just then in a frame of mind to visit severe punishment if he could only lay his indignant hands upon them.

  5. We finally got on such friendly terms that he asked me to hold his gun while he took off his shoe to see what in h--l it was hurt his foot so; some dog gone thing was pestering him awfully; he reckoned it was a dog gone peg sticking up thar.

  6. But these precautions did not for a moment interfere with our tunnelling, and while we were thus pestering Tabb, others were busy preparing other avenues of escape.

  7. Didn't know it were pestering you, sir, to ask for my rights.

  8. I, for love, and for the glamour of bright beguiling dreams that hover and delude and allure all lovers, could never until to-day behold clearly what person I was pestering with my notions.

  9. And you have cheated me out of the old Tuyla mystery by putting on the appearance of loving me, and by pestering me with such nonsense as a plowman trades against the heart of a milkmaid!

  10. So why should I keep pestering myself about it?

  11. How funny that is: when you know thinking about a thing only pesters you without helping anything at all, and yet you keep right on pestering yourself with it!

  12. Mother," said the rose, "these suitors are pestering me beyond all endurance.

  13. Among those trees many a pestering buffalo-fly had been outwitted; there, where grapevines tangled, many a mosquito had been rubbed away.

  14. In its lee, to be safe from the swarms of pestering mosquitoes, sat the hostage braves.

  15. It annoys me that all those stupid brutish faces will be gaping at me directly, pestering me with their stupid questions, which I shall have to answer--they'll point their fingers at me.

  16. Martin, stop pestering your brother until he eats something; he'll play with you and Nell by and by.

  17. Yes, of course I'm glad not to have him sarsing the girls and pestering me.

  18. Wishing, no doubt, to occupy my mind and to keep my will power at its highest pitch, he spoke to me with broad gestures; but I did not hear anything except a confused noise, annoying me and buzzing about my ears like pestering flies.

  19. He seemed to hold Marilla and me responsible for it all, though we told him the pig didn't belong to us, and had been pestering us all summer.

  20. He's been piling up branches for a fortnight and pestering Marilla to be let pour some kerosene oil over it before setting it on fire.

  21. Would I be likely to forget--would I so much as get the chance, with you pestering me almost before my hat is off?

  22. Probably no one ever thought of jogging him on or pestering him to know if his work wasn't done.

  23. That old man's chatter brought down around his head, like a swarm of pestering mosquitoes, all the provoking, irritating obligations of his life.

  24. He could not bear it either when some one who knew his little ways would begin from pure sport pestering him with questions, such as what he had in his little trunk.

  25. You know that some men in your place would have been pestering and worrying me, would have been sighing and miserable, while you are so nice!

  26. You certainly are in a pestering mood to-day," Billy Louise protested, laughing.

  27. They proved to be pestering nuisances who accomplished nothing and were sent about their business after several futile attempts under water.

  28. In June, only a month after this, Captain Kidd was asked by the Colony of Massachusetts to punish the pirates who were pestering the shipping of Boston and Salem.

  29. Espeut conceived the idea that it would be a good thing to introduce mongooses to the rats of Barbadoes and Jamaica that were pestering the cane-fields to an annoying extent.

  30. Evidently, Manitoba is tired of having ducks, ruffed grouse, pinnated and other grouse pestering her farmers and laborers.

  31. Well, will you promise to stop pestering me about Betsy Butterfly if I let you see this picture of her?

  32. You remember that you said that if I'd show you a picture of Betsy Butterfly you would stop pestering me about her.

  33. I could n't explain this, nor even give it a coloring; but I grew angry, Tom, vexed and irritated by the pestering impertinence of this pumping scoundrel.

  34. Theobald would allow him none; he was pestering me for just one day in the country while the glorious weather lasted.

  35. She'll be pestering you to run off with her, old chap," said I.

  36. Oh, I suppose they'll come pestering around as soon as they get here," said Joe.

  37. If you ever do, you'll be out of luck, because Jimmy will never get through pestering you about it.

  38. In a couple of hours everyone whom the surgeons had told of my obstinacy came pestering me.

  39. What do you mean by pestering Marcoline at the theatre yesterday?

  40. The elderly Frenchwoman whom Joan employed as a compendium of all the domestic virtues was scandalized by the pestering she had already undergone at the hands of the hotel employees.

  41. The newspapers are pestering me to declare a program.

  42. Now that Alec is firmly established, and filling empty heads with all this nonsense as to retrenchment and economical administration, every creditor I had in the world is pestering me.

  43. But I'm glad you've given me a chance to say how sorry I was for you last autumn when everybody was pestering you so about him.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pestering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggravating; animadversion; annoyance; annoying; aspersion; blandishment; bothersome; carping; cavil; criticism; demanding; disturbing; exasperating; exception; flak; galling; harassing; hit; importunate; importune; importunity; imputation; insistent; irksome; irritating; knock; nagging; niggling; nit; obloquy; pesky; pestering; pestiferous; plaguing; pressing; pressure; provoking; quibble; quibbling; rap; reflection; slam; stricture; swipe; teasing; tiresome; tormenting; troublesome; troubling; urgency; urgent; vexatious; vexing; wearisome; wheedling; worrying