nag at
Example Sentences
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For all that he did this season, the Mariners’ failure to reach to the postseason and his own inconsistencies will nag at him all offseason and motivate him through workouts.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023
“I’ve beat myself up about 450 times going through it,” Orlando said, later reiterating that “those things nag at you.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2021
Walks from his relievers seem to especially nag at him.
From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2021
She had been raised to have no expectations, she told me, but something had begun to nag at her.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2019
He doesn’t feel this always, just enough to nag at him, settling over his thoughts like a web.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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