badgered

Example Sentences

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Because that’s what gets done to the biggest guys—they are badgered, bullied, and banged around, with the hope the referees ignore a lot of the contact, because the big guy just is too big.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Later headlines would say that Solanas believed Warhol “controlled her life” and that he had “legal claim” over her self-published writing, which she frequently badgered him to read.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

For months, Meta’s algorithm badgered me to buy a little piece of plastic mounted on a magnet.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025

That has Iran on the edge of history, which left the Portuguese coach in a reflective mood as Iranian reporters badgered him to say something critical of the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2022

His first drafts were always sketchy and abrupt like e-mail— and he resisted my editing suggestions—but he did listen when I badgered him to take more time, consider more carefully what he wanted to say.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz