Get to know Pester better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like tease or dun.
Pester meaning
- To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
- To crowd together thickly.
Using Pester
- The main meaning on this page is: To bother, harass, or annoy persistently. | To crowd together thickly.
- Useful related words include: tease, dun, crucify, bedevil.
- In the example corpus, pester often appears in combinations such as: to pester, and pester, pester them.
Context around Pester
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pester
- In this selection, "pester" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, paul, producers, friends and joel stand out and add context to how "pester" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and also pester her with and annoy and pester joel about. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pester" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pester
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Speaking of Nelle, she’ll pester Ava (Maura West) across town. (11 words)
When they're together, Dazai does his best to annoy and pester Kunikida. (13 words)
It was claimed if the women did not reply, he would continue to pester them. (15 words)
It is an atmosphere that can inspire a three-and-a-half-year child, Dhiman Mondol, to pretend to be Dukhey and pester for a boat and his parents, who have also spent the evening at the play, to buy him a hull. (43 words)
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has granted bail to an elderly couple from Virudhunagar district who were arrested and remanded in judicial custody for killing their 21-year-old son, an alcoholic, who used to pester them for money. (42 words)
As a result, Mollie told she wasn’t given the scripts for the final episode – and revealed she didn’t pester producers for spoilers because she wants to be ‘involved at home’ as a viewer. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
As a result, Mollie told she wasn’t given the scripts for the final episode – and revealed she didn’t pester producers for spoilers because she wants to be ‘involved at home’ as a viewer.
Describing the day of the rape he said: "They went upstairs to watch a film and within minutes the defendant began to pester her.
I’d pester friends and loved ones about it, needing them to see the sheer chaos I’d witnessed.
The two continue their journey to Bill and Frank's where Ellie continues to annoy and pester Joel about a bunch of miscellaneous things, but he remains short with her.
TV-am’s viewing figures were dire at first, the presenters (among them Anne Diamond and Nick Owen) had to pester the accounts department to get paid and there was a lot of job insecurity.
When they're together, Dazai does his best to annoy and pester Kunikida.
It is an atmosphere that can inspire a three-and-a-half-year child, Dhiman Mondol, to pretend to be Dukhey and pester for a boat and his parents, who have also spent the evening at the play, to buy him a hull.
My sister and I used to pester our parents for Fruit Winders, which were just fun to eat if nothing else.
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has granted bail to an elderly couple from Virudhunagar district who were arrested and remanded in judicial custody for killing their 21-year-old son, an alcoholic, who used to pester them for money.
He told me: “I would badger him and pester him, but he kept stalling, so I had to use a different strategy.
Ursini, who was in some of the same classes as Maddy at college but never spoke to her, would show up at her home on religious holidays, and also pester her with letters.
Chief executive Paul Pester was forced out of the bank five months later following a disastrous appearance in front of the Treasury Select Committee.
Hamby also is among the league’s most versatile defenders — possessing the requisite strength to pester sturdy post players and the necessary foot speed to contain guards and wings — and competes with an infectious passion.
He didn’t even have the patience to coach his son’s basketball team, he said, when parents would pester him to give their kids more playing time.
Customers also reported an array of other problems, about which chief executive Paul Pester said, “We struggle to see if or how they could have occurred”.
I find it highly amusing that they felt the need to tell people not to pester McDonalds about this.
It was claimed if the women did not reply, he would continue to pester them.
SB chief Paul Pester is coming under mounting pressure as MPs and tech experts accused the lender of rushing out a botched IT upgrade.
Speaking of Nelle, she’ll pester Ava (Maura West) across town.
They pester you to come along as if they’re on commission, patronisingly assuring you “it’s for all abilities”.
Common combinations with pester
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: