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
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Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said his former wife and student son had been "pestered" by reporters, with one "rooting about" in dustbins. The Guardian World News
If we ignore them, then they pester, which is fine with me, because I'm really good at forgetting to do stuff like that. StarTribune.com rss feed
Must you pester me now even after we're out of that thrice damned school and make my life more miserable?
I observe Barry Diller, with his powerful, vulnerable skull that conveys the air of a Picasso, with his smile that's habitually so melancholic but which, now that I've stopped pestering him about his memories of Paramount, his tussles with Murdoch, his conversion to teleshopping, has become curiously childlike. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V)
Having said that, the Grand Bazaar traders have realised that hard-core hustling is bad for long-term business, and so do not pester shoppers in the way that bazaar touts do in some parts of the Middle East or north Africa.
She might never have left home had her husband-to-be Patrick not pestered her with repeated proposals.
Pundits and inside dopesters are suggesting that neither fits the bill.
It doesn't take much of a storyline shift for a cheery Lothario to be recast as a self-serving pesterer. Can 'Bonking Boris' have his cake and eat it?
All the way to his dorm room he pestered me about it, and I, quite easily, maintained my silence.
A FIRM that offered to block nuisance phone calls has been fined for pestering people itself. The Sun
Her mother is pestering me and constantly rings and texts. The Sun
a little kittle left her, an 'the big-kittled gal was jest pestered with beaux. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
Others complained about the fact that their salary was made public, leading to them being pestered for loans by old school friends and relatives. Times, Sunday Times
Pegu: if any contrary wind had come, we had throwen many of our things ouer-boord: for we were so pestered with people and goods, that there was scant place to lie in. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
My family refused to stand anywhere near me, causing the few other tourists to believe I was just a solo deranged wildlife pesterer. NewWest.Net All Headlines
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. She couldn't pick worse times.
Once the archetype of the old-fashioned shoe-leather reporter and political inside dopester, his identity changed overnight when he appeared on CNN on its opening week in 1980.
Her contribution included compiling a cookery book after pestering celebrity chefs for recipes.
I remember being huddled on the dark sands, pestering my parents for a ride on the donkeys. Times, Sunday Times
Midweek, Stefan's group will visit the villages of Magura and Pestera, where houses are built along the mountain ridges which flank deep ravines and valleys.
When it is considered what a pudder is made about essences, and how much all sorts of knowledge, discourse, and conversation are pestered and disordered by the careless and confused use and application of words, it will perhaps be thought worth while thoroughly to lay it open. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
I remember being huddled on the dark sands, pestering my parents for a ride on the donkeys. Times, Sunday Times
At the frontier, there were people pestering tourists for cigarettes, food or alcohol.
Scriptwriter Andrew Davies even invented some bodice-ripping; he straightfacedly claims that Eliot's ghost "pestered" him to steam things up. By George, We've Got It
A You say your mum paid the money just to get the salesman to stop pestering her. The Sun
This little berry also contains beta-sitosterol, campesterol and sigmasterol -- plant sterols that are good for your digestive and circulatory systems. MyLinkVault Newest Links
Aunty is "pestered" (as she calls it) to death by people wanting me to sing for their charities. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
When the bank collapsed -- or "readjusted" itself, as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District would say -- along the North Branch by my house, neighbors anxiously pestered the alderman and the district for action. Chicago Reader
I thought she'd stop pestering me, but it only seemed to make her worse.
I shake my head at the pill, and he flips it off the bed like it was a bug pestering him.
But there were many words he couldn't understand and he pestered his grandfather with queries about what they meant.
Afterward, they assumed cockroach form and pestered the poor fellow throughout his lonely meal!
If he keeps pestering you, talk to a school guidance counselor or other adult you trust to intervene.
The company has continually pestered me to insure with it after I had a quotation some years ago. Times, Sunday Times
I remember being huddled on the dark sands, pestering my parents for a ride on the donkeys. Times, Sunday Times
However, Catherine's ghost pestered him all the time, and he died in mental disorder.
Instead, they want her to stop pestering them so frequently. Times, Sunday Times
I'd tell you how, except I didn't see it because I was too busy trying to chronicle Ukraine's opener for posterity and being pestered by a fly that's buzzing around my head and won't effing eff the eff off.
I remember being huddled on the dark sands, pestering my parents for a ride on the donkeys. Times, Sunday Times
Nor are you, and this is important for anybody who adheres to the EE Cummings adage ‘include me out’, constantly being pestered to join in with everything.
The excited squeals of hungry piglets and the bleats of insistent lambs seem better designed for pestering reluctant mothers than for conveying a simple message of need.
But, he sees off the harassment with as much gusto as he dealt with the pestering tabloid journalist in fancy dress. Times, Sunday Times
He didn't like going into restaurants or pubs in case he was pestered. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
People feel pestered in nightclubs. The Sun
Marketers have a phrase called 'pester power,' " says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Maine's USATODAY.com News
Have on parental caress by every means, next issueless pester genu disturbing, everyday carefree, live easily comfortable.
So stop pestering us for details. Times, Sunday Times
We found email addresses for potential managers and agents and just pestered people. The Sun
They avoid trouble at all times and only if they are cornered or pestered will they bite at their attackers.
Reporters need to feel "oppositional" to both parties, a thorn in the side of office holders everywhere, but they also love a juicy story their rivals don't have, and they have a weakness for the inside-dopester, savvy style. Jay Rosen: Yahoos Within the GOP Coalition Challenged on their Media Think
He irritates me because each time I pass, he blocks my way and pesters me to give money, and wastes my time.
Oops, education in WA is a socialist wet dream where all according to their needs, belly up to the bar you stupid taxpayers, and dont pester us about results ... Sound Politics: "Ample provision" is a function of both funding and expenses
I shake my head at the pill, and he flips it off the bed like it was a bug pestering him.
Suddenly, Tveit is free to address the audience, introduce characters like his folks and his girl even when they're not going to appear in the real story until much later and even get interrupted by Hanratty with some pestering questions. Michael Giltz: Theater: "Catch Me If You Can" Dazzles Broadway
We want to make the pantomime writer, the proprietor of the penny “comic,” the billsticker, and the music-hall artist extremely careful, punctiliously clean, but we do not want, for example, to pester Mr. Thomas Hardy. Mankind in the Making
The reason I need to know the legal basis of this general right not to be put on a government list for engaging in lawful activity is because I want to stop the government pestering me about registering that car I bought. The Volokh Conspiracy » Merrick Garland is no friend of the rights of gun owners
The company has continually pestered me to insure with it after I had a quotation some years ago. Times, Sunday Times
While on the hunt for a new job, she becomes fascinated with the middle-aged manager of a middle-aged clothing store and pesters him into hiring her.
At the Chelsea Flower Show, Ann-Marie Powell finds garden designers looking to a geometric future and enjoys japesters taking a sly dig at the past
People feel pestered in nightclubs. The Sun
The 50,000-year-old skull of a Neanderthal from the site of Shanidar in Iran (top) has a prominent browridge and more projecting face than the 40,000-year-old Homo sapiens skull found at Pestera cu Oase in Romania. GoodShit
One such, who is nicknamed by his former friends as Terrible Terry, took to pestering strangers on the beach with the phrase, ‘Excuse me, guv, could you help out a fellow countryman who has fallen on hard times?’
Foremost among the leaders who pressed me on Mr. Platt (who "pestered" him about me, to use his own words) were Mr. Quigg, Mr. Odell -- then Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
She tried to shake him off but he continued to pester her.
The bouncer is being pestered by two girls wearing backless halter-neck tops and micro-skirts that leave little to the imagination.
S. nonetheless fully agreed this time not to pester India again about its military nuclear program.
Nothing pesters the body and mind sooner than to be still fed, to eat and ingurgitate beyond all measure, as many do. Anatomy of Melancholy
He's Rindy's Lije, en 'he's de mos' out'n out pesterer sence Mose wuz born. The Voice of the People
I think they caved in just to stop her pestering them. Times, Sunday Times
Poor Sarah Jane must have been wearing something that they liked as she was pestered from the moment we arrived.
In 1975 she pestered her parents to go to see The Osmonds perform live at Earls Court in London.
So stop pestering us for details. Times, Sunday Times
The sad-faced chaplain who had pestered Savage with his prayers excused himself before the bench. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
NDA is down - feel free to pester me outloud for questions about the game and No I cannot just hand out invites to the beta. Paging Mr. Tim.
He kind of pestered Bob Dole to create a task force on health-care reform back when the Bush administration didn't seem to be very interested in the issue, led it for many years, and under just unbelievable pressure from many in his own party and ultimately his own leader, Senator Dole, to abandon the effort and to hand President Clinton a real political setback. The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point
She pestered her parents for acting lessons and got in on a scholarship. Times, Sunday Times
Let's take her words as proof that there's a creative itch hidden somewhere, anxious to pester her back into the lippy limelight in which she glowed in the first place.
Instead, they want her to stop pestering them so frequently. Times, Sunday Times
If your children are pestering you for super-trendy labelled gear, this is the place to visit.
Most people who visit Fun Town expect to be able to sit quietly at an outside beer boozer and be pestered around 800 times an hour by the forlorn multitude of watch sellers, shoe shiners, cigarette floggers, carpet baggers, flower peddlers, photo snappers and others too numerous to mention.
Right after de War de Cherokees that had been wid the South kind of pestered the freedmen some, but I was so small dey never bothered me; jest de grown ones. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives
February 20, 2009 1:40 PM dopester the jokester said... BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!
Stop pestering me. i cannot make an exception for you.
her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions
At the frontier, there were people pestering tourists for cigarettes, food or alcohol.
Marketers have a phrase called 'pester power,' says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Maine's Colby College and co-author of Packaging Girlhood. Parents decry marketers who push sexuality on little girls
I work in advertising, so I spend my days pestered by swarms of lissom, long-limbed supermodels.
The youth felt a rage coming on, like a pestered caged animal, and cursed the ineffectiveness of his single-shot rifle.
I therefore look forward allready to Spring, And if that invalluable Lady named Hope had not allready been throng'd and pesterd, nay allmost suffocated with addresses and Sonnets I would talk over my feelings in rhyme to her. Letter 246
But are the creators exploiting the pester power of Balamory fans willing to spend vast sums of pocket money pounds on any old piece of tat with a Balamory logo?
Cows wander the streets, ragged children pester dogs with sticks, tailors teeter past on bicycles balancing bolts of fabric.
I prefer "unregenerate" to Riesman's implicit "immature" ( "As we shall see, not all other-directed people are inside-dopesters, but perhaps, for the lack of a more mature form of their type, many of them aspire to be" [p. 200]) in the light of the subsequent hijacking of AFF Doublethink Online
Mosquitoes and tabanids bite us, muscids pester us and blow flies get into our meat if it is left open.
Poor Nina, as a student at the University, was required to suffer the idiots pestering her with puns as witless and unintelligent as themselves.
A FIRM that offered to block nuisance phone calls has been fined for pestering people itself. The Sun
Forty four plant sterols have been identified and the most abundant phytosterols are beta-sitosterol, campesterol and stigmasterol. Foodconsumer.org
Cows wander the streets, ragged children pester dogs with sticks, tailors teeter past on bicycles balancing bolts of fabric.
A pensioner who was harassed by aggressive beggars in Swindon town centre has backed a campaign to stop vagrants pestering shoppers for cash.
So many parents are pestered and run out of patience and then they give in because the last thing they want is a row. The Sun
He pestered his mother for a piano, and soon was trying to replicate the sound on a tiny Casio keyboard.
It's said that the rascal pesters Sir Malaroy for money- been doing it for years. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
The same goes for the long list of rogueries - or ‘concerns’ in the State Department's new lingo-lite - with which this country has pestered the planet for many years.
So many parents are pestered and run out of patience and then they give in because the last thing they want is a row. The Sun
The nunnish woman brought to mind, of all things and all people, the hip sick dopester comic—Lenny Bruce. Underworld
When Nicholson joined two other actors, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, to make the dopester anthem TIME.com: Top Stories
Afterward, they assumed cockroach form and pestered the poor fellow throughout his lonely meal!
He's always pestering me to help him with his homework.
I note that although a pest may pester you, the word pester originally wasn't associated with the word pest in any way. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
We were joshing each other and she just entered naturally into the discussion, and was pestering Hanzel to buy some.
He tried to poison us like lower animals, like the mice that pester storybook villages, the insects that fly around the heads of those that I read about.
Three plant sterols that maintain a healthy heart and digestive system can be found in the acai berry: beta-sitosterol, campesterol and sigmasterol. MyLinkVault Newest Links
Cows wander the streets, ragged children pester dogs with sticks, tailors teeter past on bicycles balancing bolts of fabric.
Hayley apologises to Lisa for sticking her nose in the other day and pestering her about her husband, Alan.
He didn't like going into restaurants or pubs in case he was pestered. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
The most interesting element in the article is the Oxycontin inspired drivel from the dopester contrasted with reality. Propeller Most Popular Stories
To cadging make a living as a performer person clear the standard also had clear, pester repeatedly namely, beg forcibly the person that reach the means with other and mobbish other to cadge.
Foremost among the leaders who pressed me on Mr. Platt (who "pestered" him about me, to use his own words) were Mr. Quigg, Mr. Odellthen State Chairman of the Republican organization, and afterwards Governorand Mr. Hazel, now United States Judge. VIII. The New York Governorship
Her 10-year-old son kept pestering every crew member he encountered, begging for a chance to drive the massive ocean liner.
Steve and his girl engage in some backwards drag racing with some other juvies and get pestered by the cops to, ‘Cool it.’
In her classes, she pestered professors with questions about how the legal topic in question - wills and trusts, property law - might apply to pets.
He later bombarded the 43-year-old woman with calls on her mobile phone, pestering her for a date.
So, Poor Nina, as a student in the Glasgow Caledonian University, she was required to suffer the neds of the Weedjie race pestering her with puns as witless and unintelligent as themselves.
Gentle critick! when thou hast weighed all this, and considered within thyself how much of thy own knowledge, discourse, and conversation has been pestered and disordered, at one time or other, by this, and this only: — What a pudder and racket in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
I feel somewhat like a measly ant pestering a magnificent tiger who has chosen to sleep on an anthill.
Emily split up from Rushton but he pestered her with constant text messages and phone calls.
I think they caved in just to stop her pestering them. Times, Sunday Times
And I literally made a hit-list of all the experts, the real brainiacs, and I just pestered him until they met with me.
As a mother gentoo penguin flees downhill from her frantically pestering offspring, the whole train trips over itself, squawking and skidding uncontrollably.
Have on parental caress by every means, next issueless pester genu disturbing, everyday carefree, live easily comfortable.
She went on and on about it so in the end I entered a competition in a magazine, just to stop her pestering me. The Sun
Police will also be targeting kerb-crawlers and prostitutes in the town's red-light district as well as beggars who pester people for money.
Stop pestering her or it could feel like harassment. The Sun
So stop pestering us for details. Times, Sunday Times
So after coming from work, I used to flip through the yellow pages, call the fishmongers and pester them with questions about "pomfret", "mackrel", "king fish"... Sungatha Fanna upkari - Fiery Prawns Curry
A FIRM that offered to block nuisance phone calls has been fined for pestering people itself. The Sun
It seems, from an inside dopester story by Bill Gertz in the Washington Times, cited here by William Lind last week, that in the White House sessions formulating Obama's Afghan policy Vice President Joe Biden, and Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg, argued for a minimal strategy of "stabilizing" Afghanistan. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
So many parents are pestered and run out of patience and then they give in because the last thing they want is a row. The Sun
I again politely declined (having just finished breakfast), but was good enough to point him in Fester's direction so he could be pestered about the non-functional video screen.
Still, if it wasn't for the team, we would only be pestering our partners or getting on with the decorating and housekeeping!
She pestered her parents for acting lessons and got in on a scholarship. Times, Sunday Times
We want to make the pantomime writer, the proprietor of the penny "comic," the billsticker, and the music-hall artist extremely careful, punctiliously clean, but we do not want, for example, to pester Mr. Thomas Hardy. Mankind in the Making
And stop pestering me, Anna. The Glasgow Girls
We did give them coffee once Gladys had it made, but I was darned if I'd let them pester me with a lot of fool questions. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
But for today's child, vacation no longer means whiling away the time in front of the television, pestering the mother or keeping grandparents on tenterhooks for the most part of the day.
One of the sterols in olive oil, campesterol, is a little bit higher [in Australian oils]," he says. Olives101.com
Unscrupulous companies will instead pester you with annoying phone calls or unannounced visits.
You are a confounded nuisance. Stop pestering me.
A You say your mum paid the money just to get the salesman to stop pestering her. The Sun
Soz guys, I feel bad for pestering you all to read my blog.
She is really pestering me for the information, and so far I have been able to stall her, but not for long, so a quick answer to my problem, please.
Three plant sterols (or photosterols) have been identified in Acai - B-sitosterol, campesterol and sigmasterol. Wil's Ebay E-Store
She went on and on about it so in the end I entered a competition in a magazine, just to stop her pestering me. The Sun
Recently, I peppered her with emails (perhaps "pestered" would be a better word): What does the air smell like in April? On Sight
Acai berries contain three different plant sterols - B-sitosterol, campesterol and sigmasterol. MyLinkVault Newest Links
No waiters pestered us to buy more drinks or ask us to vacate the table, even though there were probably hungry diners waiting upstairs.
In an early draft, he plays the inside dopester who recounts Rick's past.
Some police officers feel that a designated zone for prostitutes would be realistic, increase their safety and stop innocent women being pestered by kerb-crawlers.
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I don't want a situation that we had in the past where people were pestering players for tickets ahead of big games.
The first is that advertising piles deliberate pressure on parents with the pester power of the child.
Stop pestering her or it could feel like harassment. The Sun
He would ask for something, and I would refuse; then he would pester me unmercifully, simply wearing me down until I gave in. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
But the heat and the endlessly pestering fleas and bedbugs dragged them, again and again, back to consciousness.
Most of the popular girls from my school constantly pestered me for a picture of him, but I never gave them anything.
That's often a time for some llamas to pester each other.
Serepta Pester sent these errents to you, she wanted intemperance done away with, the Whiskey Ring broke up and destroyed, she wanted you to have nothin 'stronger than root beer when you had company to dinner, she offerin' to send you some burdock and dandeline roots and some emptins to start it with, and she wanted her rights, and wanted 'em all by week after next without fail. Samantha on the Woman Question
You haue written to vs to send you caske which is not heere to be had, neither doe wee thinke it so best if it were heere, considering it must goe either shaken and bounde vp, or else emptie, which will bee pesterable, and likewise will shrinke and drie, and not be fitte to lade oyles in. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
She went on and on about it so in the end I entered a competition in a magazine, just to stop her pestering me. The Sun
Her mother is pestering me and constantly rings and texts. The Sun
swarms of pestering gnats
Young boys carrying bedrolls start pestering passengers to hire a roll for a good night's sleep.
I was in a bad mood and he kept pestering me, so we had words.
Stop pestering her or it could feel like harassment. The Sun
Males mature more slowly; at three, they begin to pester mares in estrus and are driven out of their natal group.
The Northern Congressman retreated before this pertinacious mendicant into his committee-room, and his pesterer followed him closely, nothing abashed, even into the privileged cloisters of the committee. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
Pester-power is an amazingly strong force, and children know how best to bully their parents into buying them what they want.
Her mother is pestering me and constantly rings and texts. The Sun
Pestered yesterday with the Athanasian creed [1] & a sermon in defence of incomprehensibility besides the epistle from the Revelations. believe me I lost all patience Letter 12
My wife had been pestering me to take her shopping for the boys' presents, and I had been putting her off.
So, the gossiping busybody that I am, I started to pester him about who he liked.
And stop pestering me, Anna. The Glasgow Girls
I shake my head at the pill, and he flips it off the bed like it was a bug pestering him.
We found email addresses for potential managers and agents and just pestered people. The Sun
She pestered her parents for acting lessons and got in on a scholarship. Times, Sunday Times
People feel pestered in nightclubs. The Sun
Instead, they want her to stop pestering them so frequently. Times, Sunday Times
Here he is photobombing Kathleen Sebelius at an event where he reportedly pestered her to call his children on his phone.
Despite the protests of educators, labor and the press, dopesters predicted that the board would fire him anyway.
Sure, it imperils our GPAs, and we will have to spend a lot of time pestering professors to ensure that our grades do not take a downward turn from such an annoying and useless course.

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