How to Use nagging in a Sentence

nagging

adjective
  • Oh, and that nagging coach who’s in their head.
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 25 May 2026
  • Mitchell sat out his fourth straight game with a nagging groin strain.
    CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • That nagging question swung back and forth in his head for months.
    Cecilia Garzella, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
  • But a nagging fear of crime persists.
    Fred Clasen-Kelly, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Lose yourself in your work to leave any nagging voices in the dust.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
  • Falter has dealt with the nagging injury for two years.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
  • But the feeling stayed with him—a nagging voice asking, what if?
    Shefali Luthra, TIME, 15 May 2024
  • As these thoughts were nagging at me, the deer turned his head for a moment and looked at his pal.
    Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 5 June 2025
  • Some was put to help research a nagging question.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
  • But in her last year of her 30s, a nagging thought crept into her mind.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But she was distracted by a nagging thought.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Still, there’s a nagging sense this team hasn’t reached its true potential.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Such self-assurance brings nagging blind spots.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
  • There was also the nagging question about the sink being dry.
    Natalie Morales, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Any nagging injuries down the stretch last season would help explain trends in his play.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 4 Feb. 2023
  • In the past, nagging doubts may have dissuaded you from putting yourself out there.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The paddle brush, meanwhile, solved a nagging hair problem for me.
    Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • But for me, that always meant avoiding some nagging injury.
    Mark Woods, Florida Times-Union, 6 Feb. 2026
  • But at the same time, there might be a strange nagging feeling at the back of their collective minds.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Yes, there’s a world where this nagging injury — this sense of foreboding — goes away.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • And that was the nagging concern on a day when Wednesday fans chose to draw a line in the sand.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Smiler has been in and out of the starting lineup due to a nagging knee injury.
    Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • He’s consumed by a nagging question.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The edge is usually taken off by the nagging brain worms of the fretter.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 11 May 2025
  • Rodman struggled with a nagging back injury last year.
    ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Embiid has been dealing with a nagging knee injury and has tried to play through it.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Samuel is listed as questionable to take the field with a nagging heel injury.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But lethargy has been nagging at them again this week, in defeat and in victory.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Stanley needs to know as the guitars come crashing in to join him on the nagging chorus.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The extraordinary move left me with a nagging sense of déjà vu.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025

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