Sentence examples for so pesky from inspiring English sources

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A slender left-handed batter, only 5 feet 9 inches and 170 pounds or so, Pesky was adept at spraying line drives, beating out infield hits and executing the hit-and-run.

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THE Bush administration's commitment to building a missile defense system has quickly reanimated the debate over whether it is advisable -- or even possible -- to reliably swat incoming warheads from the skies like so many pesky mosquitoes.

So those pesky Swedes confounded those of us who'd spent the morning preparing stories on Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Cormac McCarthy and Tomas Tranströmer, and up and gave the Nobel prize for literature to the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.

None of this is to say that Woakes has truly arrived yet – five-wicket hauls and centuries do that – and so those pesky doubters will only have been converted in their singles during what has been a second early-summer mismatch.

The nasty work's done at the fi shmonger anyway so no chasing pesky crustaceans round the kitchen with whatever it is you kill lobster with.

The chapter titled "Mrs. Nixon Has Thoughts on the War's Escalation" consists of this one inane sentence: "You and Henry ordering the 'Christmas Bombing' was pesky!" So why turn Mrs. Nixon into a "Literary Lego Person"?

The European Union, Japan and the scores of big firms that had opposed the Massachusetts law will be pleased that the court rejected so firmly a pesky complication to international trade (which also, incidentally, seemed to violate the United States' obligations under the World Trade Organisation's open-procurement agreements).

So all you pesky pescatarians and Sushi eaters take note, there seems no excuse!

Doing so avoids multiple pesky emails as well as establishes an efficient agenda for your time together.

So unless those pesky consequences are going to happen in the next few minutes, my brain just won't interpret them as mattering at all.

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