niggling

How To Use niggling In A Sentence

• That is despite going under the knife on Tuesday to cure a niggling groin problem. The Sun
• So, too, we should whenever practicable lay on our colours in washes; if we begin with stippling our drawings they will be "niggling," and will be sure to look poor and "spotty. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young
• If the solution seems like too much hassle, and you get that niggling feeling that you'd never get around to fixing things up, accept it and move on.
• Within 30 minutes though things were looking rather problematic as there was a homebirth 'niggling' and both the on-call midwives were from our office. British Blogs
• Somehow niggling at my brain is this apartment as a metaphor for the Korean Way of Doing Things.
• The accounts department is niggling me for ten cents they say I owe them.
• Bianguai people suddenly started a gentle love, love when people understand the deterioration of the niggling over.
• Croft took a year's sabbatical to recover from a string of niggling injuries and is now raring to go again.
• At this stage of your progress, if not before, you may be assured that some clever friend will come in, and hold up his hands in mocking amazement, and ask you who could set you to that "niggling;" and if you persevere in it, you will have to sustain considerable persecution from your artistical acquaintances generally, who will tell you that all good drawing depends on "boldness. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
• And a hundred other niggling little things that all add up to a big fantastical thumbs down. Times, Sunday Times