nagged

Example Sentences

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The burden had lifted, never again would we be able to ask the questions that had nagged him for more than a decade.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

These arguably hairsplitting thoughts nagged at me thanks to my job as a congressional correspondent focused on federal spending.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

“We really just took an extra week because it kind of nagged with him so we took an extra week to get him back,’’ Carroll said of Haynes.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023

Such on-the-street analysis could help untangle one of the questions that has nagged researchers and L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023

This latest discovery of a new and baffling rhyme concerning moonlight, the north and an unknown threshold nagged at his brain.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques