Sentence examples for nag from inspiring English sources

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The word "nag" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe someone who constantly finds fault or makes demands of another. For example, "My mother is always nagging me to clean my room."

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nag

noun

A small horse; a pony.

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Abla Klaa, 21, lives with her family, a 30-minute bus ride from campus Monday It's my last week of lectures, which means I can almost say goodbye to swamped library spaces, hurried commutes to university and my mother's morning nag about the importance of a healthy breakfast and an early night.

It was the same in the last game: women were there to nag you, or be bribed – whether with fancy dinners or cold, hard cash – into having sex with you.

Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, will also be at the summit, but there are no plans to nag him about his army's brutality in Darfur.Of the new inducements, trade deals called Economic Partnership Agreements are the ones Europe thinks will help Africa most.

The law has not yet been passed, and in the meantime newspapers, in particular, continue to nag the government about its poor performance and lambast it over corruption.Most important are South Africa's courts—especially the constitutional one which have long been hailed as a bulwark against the ANC's authoritarian and corrupt tendencies.

Does the family go out less than once a week?The parent educators don't just nag parents to read to their offspring more and hit them less.

There, nurses cannot nag them against using public transport or about completing their course of antibiotics, so they mix widely and unwittingly encourage their infections to evolve increasingly impervious forms.

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Adverbial cases are reduced to two (in/to, from/along) in Aleut and are limited to pronouns and relation words e.g., ula-m nag-a-n "of house (ula-m) in its (-a-) interior"; this corresponds to Inupiaq iglu-m ilu-a-ni "in the house".

But they don't know for sure and uncertainty nags.

Campaigners long vilified as humourless, sexless feminist nags and hags have won.

But there are legitimate, nagging doubts because there is still no requirement in any country for companies to conduct long term trials.

Yes, if investors have nagging doubts, then the current working capital position could be off-putting; indeed the Great Stella development needs to come on-stream as promised.

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