How To Use Badgering In A Sentence
-
But not even the badgering from the rational side of her mind was helping to shake her feeling of contentedness.
-
Not long after Thompson scored, O'Neill started badgering his team from the sideline, a process that never really relented until the end.
-
My friends keep badgering me to get a cell phone.
-
He's been badgering us for about five minutes now with his wretched droning, and if I'm exposed to much more of it I'm going to bite someone.
-
The larger of the two, Arlen, comes across as an insecure bully, flaunting his juvenile snake tattoo and badgering Muldrow with idle threats.
-
The reason Pinter's plays "do not make sense" to some, the reason episodes of THE PRISONER "do not make sense" to some, is that they present us with communication as sympathic communion or as antipathic combat, the verbal baiting and badgering of the latter in a relationship to fighting as gossip is to grooming.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (3)
-
Emma campaigned for years, raising a petition and badgering councillors.
-
It is a vicious circle: The naggee tires of the badgering and starts to withhold, which makes the nagger nag more.
Meet the Marriage Killer
-
There is no mind-jarring pop music to shred your thoughts and, more importantly, no irksome rash of timeshare touts badgering you to buy a dream in the sun.
-
He hated his mother for physically and mentally badgering him to fulfil her wishes.
-
But I have, for a long time, called him Badger, for his propensity of badgering and harassing young women with whom he fancies himself in love.
-
Ranking ecclesiastics took up the time of U.S. decision makers, badgering them about whether they had thought of this possible consequence or that.
-
To those press people and television reporters badgering me, it was easy for them to talk about George in the past tense even as he lay on a hospital bed.
-
Committee chairman Boy Nobunga also had to intervene twice to reprimand Freedom Front committee member Hein Mentz for "badgering" witnesses after they gave what he described as inadequate answers.
ANC Daily News Briefing
-
She describes a CBS News anchorman as "badgering" her in a notorious interview which appeared to reveal her as woefully under-informed and ill-read.
-
You can almost see the foam dripping from their mouths as they behave like lawyers badgering a witness.
-
My husband had been badgering me for months to tie up some savings in the bonds.
-
After much badgering and a spectacular case of the sulks, Mum admitted defeat, unlocked the safe and sent us to a proper barber shop.
-
Stop badgering your father with questions!
-
He says he was only cajoled into being a public figure by his wife and son badgering him to avoid the silent comforts of the library.
-
This is merely badgering the witness and editorialising, so you know, Senator, on both grounds your propositions are out of order.
-
The friend that's always badgering you about why you're upset, the brother that wants an account of every boy his sister hangs out with.
-
On the night of the shooting, Jaw had been badgering her about her past relationships and insisted on seeing copies of recent e-mails.
-
Dad's been badgering me to get a webcam for ages - since I arrived in Japan, actually - so we could videoconference with each other.
-
Often the result of one partner badgering the other into making a bit of a show.
-
My guess is, that clerk didn't feel stupid about it at all, until the Times reporter started badgering him.
-
Off to a day of badgering and haggling in dark little storefronts full of stoppered glass bottles full of writhing mists.
Valentines, part the first
-
His daughter was always badgering him to let her join the club.
-
Tom has been badgering his uncle to buy him a camera.
-
Is the News of the World suggesting that the BBC should have released his name sooner so that other journalists could start badgering him earlier over the affair?
-
I could easily imagine Aaron Spelling bumping into Hackman at the Playboy Club and badgering him into a quick walk-on.
-
Come, now - explain your ingenious little riddle, and don't go on badgering and bullyragging people in this mysterious way.
-
As a young boy, I once had to watch a father sorrowfully attempt to disregard the constant badgering of people attending the funeral of his teenage son, turning a deaf ear to rumours surrounding the circumstances of the boy's death.
Fahad Faruqui: (Not) Giving In To Gossip
-
A Jets P.R. man told Revis to vamoose when Francesa kept badgering Revis about a no-call on his 100-yard interception return against Miami.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
-
Stop badgering your father with questions!
-
She had hoped her brief explosion in words would have ceased his badgering.
-
How many nine-year-olds can be bothered to empathise with the serving staff in the local mall, when their time could be much more profitably filled by badgering their parents for junk food?
-
A great idea, except it doesn't really matter, because nobody minds if you betray them or not - next time, they'll still be badgering you for help.
-
They took one look at the clearly uncooked meat coated in a layer of flesh-eating insects and set about badgering us like a pair of rabid wolverines.
-
I'm glad I'm not the only one to find Dimbleby's show increasingly an excuse for him to indulge his ego and behave pompously, as he tries to cram a quart into a pint pot by badgering his 'guests' with interruptions and snidey remarks to make himself look of a superior intelligence.
Johnson, Benn and Harman Shine on Question Time
