pester

How To Use pester In A Sentence

• A group of mums are using a secret weapon to encourage parents to walk their children to school - pester power.
• De Jong pesters Hutton down the left, and nearly gets in on goal, but the full-back is as staunch as only a former Rangers player can be. Tottenham Hotspur v FC Twente – as it happened
• The more she pesters him with emotional calls, the more irritated he becomes.
• This sustained defiance of the elements provoked occasional judgments in the shape of a "hoast" (cough), and the head of the house was then exhorted by his women folk to "change his feet" if he had happened to walk through a burn on his way home, and was pestered generally with sanitary precautions. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
• He is still a little straitened, a little pestered by the doubting and critical optics which our time turns upon man, a little victimized by his knowledge of limitary conditions and secondary laws. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
• The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look.
• The breeze copies to connect Lian to use to pester a blade earthquake to open nearby one flower petal and flustered and frustratedly says.
• The pestering problem of ‘protected teachers’ can be tackled only if the unaided sector is put on a leash.
• Once their stateroom is fixed up to their liking they stay put, save theirselves the bother of getting pestered by nobodies. MR STARLIGHT
• He hared past Clichy on the left to latch on the a lovely pass from Parker but Lloris charged out to pester him and Mphela shot into the sidenetting. World Cup 2010: France v South Africa - as it happened