How To Use Pestered In A Sentence
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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)
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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
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Once their stateroom is fixed up to their liking they stay put, save theirselves the bother of getting pestered by nobodies.
MR STARLIGHT
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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
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She might never have left home had her husband-to-be Patrick not pestered her with repeated proposals.
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All the way to his dorm room he pestered me about it, and I, quite easily, maintained my silence.
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a little kittle left her, an 'the big-kittled gal was jest pestered with beaux.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But there were many words he couldn't understand and he pestered his grandfather with queries about what they meant.
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Afterward, they assumed cockroach form and pestered the poor fellow throughout his lonely meal!
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The company has continually pestered me to insure with it after I had a quotation some years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, Catherine's ghost pestered him all the time, and he died in mental disorder.
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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.
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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.
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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
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People feel pestered in nightclubs.
The Sun
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We found email addresses for potential managers and agents and just pestered people.
The Sun
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They avoid trouble at all times and only if they are cornered or pestered will they bite at their attackers.
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The company has continually pestered me to insure with it after I had a quotation some years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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People feel pestered in nightclubs.
The Sun
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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
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The bouncer is being pestered by two girls wearing backless halter-neck tops and micro-skirts that leave little to the imagination.
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Poor Sarah Jane must have been wearing something that they liked as she was pestered from the moment we arrived.
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In 1975 she pestered her parents to go to see The Osmonds perform live at Earls Court in London.
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The sad-faced chaplain who had pestered Savage with his prayers excused himself before the bench.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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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
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She pestered her parents for acting lessons and got in on a scholarship.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions
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I work in advertising, so I spend my days pestered by swarms of lissom, long-limbed supermodels.
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The youth felt a rage coming on, like a pestered caged animal, and cursed the ineffectiveness of his single-shot rifle.
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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
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He pestered his mother for a piano, and soon was trying to replicate the sound on a tiny Casio keyboard.
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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.
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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
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Afterward, they assumed cockroach form and pestered the poor fellow throughout his lonely meal!
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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
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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
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Steve and his girl engage in some backwards drag racing with some other juvies and get pestered by the cops to, ‘Cool it.’
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In her classes, she pestered professors with questions about how the legal topic in question - wills and trusts, property law - might apply to pets.
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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
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Emily split up from Rushton but he pestered her with constant text messages and phone calls.
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And I literally made a hit-list of all the experts, the real brainiacs, and I just pestered him until they met with me.
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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
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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.
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She pestered her parents for acting lessons and got in on a scholarship.
Times, Sunday Times
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Recently, I peppered her with emails (perhaps "pestered" would be a better word): What does the air smell like in April?
On Sight
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No waiters pestered us to buy more drinks or ask us to vacate the table, even though there were probably hungry diners waiting upstairs.
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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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Most of the popular girls from my school constantly pestered me for a picture of him, but I never gave them anything.
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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
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We found email addresses for potential managers and agents and just pestered people.
The Sun
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She pestered her parents for acting lessons and got in on a scholarship.
Times, Sunday Times
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People feel pestered in nightclubs.
The Sun
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Here he is photobombing Kathleen Sebelius at an event where he reportedly pestered her to call his children on his phone.
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She pestered her parents for years to let her go to Germany, with which she had developed a fascination.
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We found email addresses for potential managers and agents and just pestered people.
The Sun
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The company has continually pestered me to insure with it after I had a quotation some years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Librarians are pestered every day to explain why the student's saves to disc ‘do not work.’
