Explore Nagging through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like shrewish. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Nagging meaning
Persistently annoying or painful.
Synonyms of Nagging
Using Nagging
- The main meaning on this page is: Persistently annoying or painful.
- Useful related words include: shrewish, ill-natured.
- In the example corpus, nagging often appears in combinations such as: the nagging, nagging feeling, of nagging.
Context around Nagging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nagging
- In this selection, "nagging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, recovered, people, kids, ankle, injury and bullets stand out and add context to how "nagging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a nagging ankle injury and alluded to nagging injuries that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nagging" sits close to words such as acadia, ae and aes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nagging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Several nagging issues are in focus. (6 words)
He rested and recovered nagging shin split issues. (8 words)
He alluded to nagging injuries that hampered him earlier in the season. (12 words)
The bye week seemed to help Jackson’s nagging ankle injury, and he let all of his frustration from the injury that has been hampering him out in his running style on Saturday, lowering his shoulder and flattening a Cal defender on one run. (44 words)
Regular, hum-drum PGA Tour events, on the other hand, were often viewed with the same kind of shrugging indifference you’d get from a sullen teenager who’d just been presented with a list of chores from a nagging parent. (41 words)
He said: “I’ve had a lot of people nagging at me to start writing music and poetry again – it started at the beginning of lent and I thought I would write a poem per day. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Both the person that nags and the one who receives the ‘nagging bullets’ are affected by the negative energy that nagging brings.
A nagging ankle injury first suffered in fall camp has been hampering Jackson throughout the season.
Any sort of nagging voice inside one’s head simply doesn’t exist in this reality.
Dahlin did not play Thursday night in the Sabres 3-1 win against Boston due to a nagging lower-body injury.
He alluded to nagging injuries that hampered him earlier in the season.
He rested and recovered nagging shin split issues.
Her foot, which had been nagging her for a couple of weeks after a bad landing, didn’t seem to faze her at all.
He said: “I’ve had a lot of people nagging at me to start writing music and poetry again – it started at the beginning of lent and I thought I would write a poem per day.
If anything Correa’s poor play should be the biggest issue moving forward rather than a nagging foot muscle injury.
In many instances, the cost of the finops governance tools exceeds any savings from nagging cloud users into using fewer cloud services.
In the ninth inning, setup man made his first appearance in a week after getting some time to recover from a nagging injury.
Regular, hum-drum PGA Tour events, on the other hand, were often viewed with the same kind of shrugging indifference you’d get from a sullen teenager who’d just been presented with a list of chores from a nagging parent.
Rusedski had played just one previous match in 2007 – losing in the first round of a Challenger event in Sarajevo – as he struggled with a nagging hip injury and plummeting world ranking.
Scott knows that they won, but there's still a nagging feeling inside of him that tells him that the fight isn't over.
Several nagging issues are in focus.
Starting left tackle Trent Brown has only started to ease his way back into competitive reps after dealing with a nagging injury.
The Broncos' third-round pick in the had a slow start to his rookie year due to a nagging hamstring injury.
The bye week seemed to help Jackson’s nagging ankle injury, and he let all of his frustration from the injury that has been hampering him out in his running style on Saturday, lowering his shoulder and flattening a Cal defender on one run.
The caller was a farmer and he was talking about how sick he was of his kids nagging him about where he (Easter Bunny) was going to hide said eggs.
The little nagging things start catching up to them, weight starts going up a bit, speed, especially explosiveness soon falls off a cliff.
Common combinations with nagging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the nagging 21×
- nagging feeling 8×
- of nagging 7×
- that nagging 6×
- with nagging 6×
- to nagging 5×
- nagging injury 5×
- nagging injuries 4×
- nagging issues 4×
- is nagging 4×