How To Use Niggling In A Sentence
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That is despite going under the knife on Tuesday to cure a niggling groin problem.
The Sun
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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
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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.
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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
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Somehow niggling at my brain is this apartment as a metaphor for the Korean Way of Doing Things.
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The accounts department is niggling me for ten cents they say I owe them.
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Bianguai people suddenly started a gentle love, love when people understand the deterioration of the niggling over.
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Croft took a year's sabbatical to recover from a string of niggling injuries and is now raring to go again.
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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
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And a hundred other niggling little things that all add up to a big fantastical thumbs down.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there is one niggling doubt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The niggling worry is that run was back in April so he has missed a lot of the season.
The Sun
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The clubs around us are the ones looking over their shoulders, the ones with niggling doubts, nursing a nervous tic.
The Sun
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It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
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Both players have been suffering from niggling injuries.
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I just can't remember his name - it's been niggling for a couple of weeks.
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He subsequently suffered from niggling hamstring injuries, but has now been fit since the beginning of last month and has not been selected.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I have to admit, no noise is better than constant, niggling, riling, infuriating noise.
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The second niggling point is the large proportion of sales made through tied agents.
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She hears it every day, niggling and nagging in the back of her mind, reminding her that she failed.
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I'm having treatment for a niggling foot injury - a common problem for badminton players.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then sort out any niggling problems you have, and learn some relaxation exercises.
The Sun
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We know he's a niggling sniggerer, so I guess that also makes him a sniggering niggler.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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I just can't remember his name - it's been niggling for a couple of weeks.
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The other niggling annoyance is the relative ease with which you can knock your chums off platforms into the bottomless abyss.
The Sun
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Worries we have been carrying around niggling in the backs of our minds tend to surface when we see one of these bright green centres.
The Sun
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They are the perfect group of people with which to discuss this niggling feeling that now has a smell.
Times, Sunday Times
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But a simpler explanation is that the wayward adverb in the passage is blowback from Chief Justice Roberts's habit of grammatical niggling.
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The film is slick enough to quell most niggling doubts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stop niggling about every penny we spend.
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If niggling back pain has plagued your workouts, then this could be what you need to get back on track.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he also wanted to make sure he had fully recovered from niggling wrist and back injuries that troubled him earlier in the year.
The Sun
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It was more a niggling sense of unease.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here is an enchanted world, a sanctuary for humans as much as for animals, in which the niggling concerns of our quotidian existence seem thousands of miles away.
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Sledging, niggling, reacting - it's as much part of the game as the kickoff.
The Sun
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He has an eye for niggling little details that add up to an air of unease and the sense that you are never too sure what might happen next.
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No doubt Krugman has the ability to get the attention of the Obama transition on economic matters, but all I see of input from the left is niggling over the insufficiently progressive credentials of Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Larry Summers, et al. - plus self-congratulation over an occasional bumpoff of a torture-loving intelligence official.
Krugman: Obama's Centrist Economic Appointments "Unavoidable"
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His most basic requirement was relief from a niggling fear of loneliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is the kind of niggling technicality that will send my grey hairs in sorrow to the grave.
The House Next Door
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I couldn't shake off a niggling worry. Had I forgotten to lock the office door?
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I told her that I would let her know but something was niggling in the back of my mind that perhaps I had already committed to another invite.
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The manager has had words with his squad and is determined to cut out the niggling dissent.
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He had laughed at her for staring at him and she had blushed and hit him on the arm but the feeling was still niggling at her mind.
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I just can't remember his name - it's been niggling for a couple of weeks.
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Set too close together these small cubes are apt to look niggling.
The Education of a Gardener
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On the way home in the car I began to have a niggling fear.
Christianity Today
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Something's been niggling her all day.
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Of course, that kind of niggling detail tends to fly under your radar, it seems.
BlueOregon
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The first ever Museum of Modern Art reopened its doors last month and among the oohs and aahs over its new Manhattan building could be heard an undeniable, niggling caveat.
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I'm not counting Hispanics in this calculus, because a) Obama hasn't exactly mamboed away with the Latino vote, and b) I can research every last niggling bicameral demographic, or I can watch Hell's Kitchen: I can't do both.
David Matthews: Obama is full of it. Hope, I mean.
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Like the death of 10,000 cuts, injuries both serious and niggling have brought me scratching and mewling into middle age.
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Of course, there's still that niggling problem of unemployment, which will outlast the glow of Obama's speech.
Obama seized control of debate over government
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The niggling doubts surrounding his decision made so long ago fashioned him as easy prey for Jennifer's plan.
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His most basic requirement was relief from a niggling fear of loneliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the fabulous goal-kicker is now much more mobile than he was last year when a niggling groin injury affected him.
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The nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, in Sydney's south west, will deliver on expectations by next year despite ongoing "niggling" problems, the federal government's nuclear advisory organisation says.
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We decided that going for the two games was best and in some league matches we left out players who had niggling injuries or would miss the Cup tie if they got a booking.
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Bianguai people suddenly started a gentle love, love when people understand the deterioration of the niggling over.
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Set too close together these small cubes are apt to look niggling.
The Education of a Gardener
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To top it all a niggling pain gave off a sharp, burning sensation in the bottom of her stomach.
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Do you have a niggling worry that you may have osteoporosis?
Times, Sunday Times
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Any gamer who has given the title a whirl knows the critical claim doesn't come unwarranted, even with a few niggling things like ...
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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Then came the niggling feeling: is this it?
Times, Sunday Times
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When a great new revolutionary idea hits the public, there are always doubters, raising niggling ifs and buts.
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a dispute over niggling details
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When a great new revolutionary idea hits the public, there are always doubters, raising niggling ifs and buts.
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Somehow niggling at my brain is this apartment as a metaphor for the Korean Way of Doing Things.
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But I've always got something in me niggling.
The Sun
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She hears it every day, niggling and nagging in the back of her mind, reminding her that she failed.
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Arthur is equivocal about whether Kallis 'absence may be a boost for opponents themselves beset by a collection of' niggling 'injuries.
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I've got a niggling back injury and it's a good chance to rest.
The Sun
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But before you begin, make sure you are fully warmed up and have no injuries or niggling pain.
The Sun
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My only complaint was that there seemed to be a niggling hesitation in some performances and a tendency to overplay parts of the text.
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But they also had a penchant for niggling and appeared very adept at winning penalties for laying on by effectively holding the tackler on top.
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There was much less dish in the afternoon's testimony, and lots of the same kind of niggling that has made the defense so unpopular with the audience.
The Comedian and the Momma’s Boy - Swampland - TIME.com
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Ball had been niggling away at the Dutch striker, but, as they turned to run towards the box, his elbow poleaxed the young defender.
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I am sure you have had that niggling feeling you could have done better.
Times, Sunday Times
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His old ankle injury is niggling him.
The Sun
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Don't waste time on niggling details.
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She still felt the same niggling doubt: was he really telling the truth?
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He subsequently suffered from niggling hamstring injuries, but has now been fit since the beginning of last month and has not been selected.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there will still be that niggling sense that there could have been more.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there's a strange niggling as we enter into this new era of musical brinkmanship.
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But I've always got something in me niggling.
The Sun
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The other factor niggling away at me was the fact that a year before a tourist had been killed by a flying rock the size of a bus!
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Irksome burdens lighten and niggling worries vanish, when friends rally round to help us see life in its true perspective.
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But I do know that what I consider only niggling annoyances can become show-stoppers for newbies.
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No I don't, but it's one of those things that is niggling at the back of my mind.
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Opening bowler v opening bat both with the kind of niggling big mouths we want to see.
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There was a niggling in the back of her mind, perhaps her subconscious prodding at her, trying to get her attention.
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But there is that niggling doubt because he himself won't admit it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bianguai people suddenly started a gentle love, love when people understand the deterioration of the niggling over.
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His old ankle injury is niggling him.
The Sun
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Having been accused at the beginning of that post of "niggling", I thought perhaps I ought to cut to the chase.
What do we mean by ‘computer game’?
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And a hundred other niggling little things that all add up to a big fantastical thumbs down.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's always there, sitting at the back of your mind, niggling away at you.
