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Discover LudwigThe phrase "nagging at" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe when someone is constantly giving someone else unpleasant reminders about something. For example, "I can't seem to get any peace around here, my mother is always nagging at me to mow the lawn."
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But a renegade thought kept nagging at me when I ate there.
Something was nagging at her, however.
— nagging at Momma until she laughed, saying, "Hell no!
There's something nagging at the edge of my consciousness.
Something, however, is nagging at his well-bred assurance.
But the other concerns are nagging at them.
That was the question nagging at Jean Grae on Sunday night.
But something was nagging at her. "The red shift," she said.
Something that his financial adviser had told him was nagging at the back of his brain.
Despite the double dip, no such doubts appear to be nagging at Mr Clegg.
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