NAG in a Sentence

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33 example sentences for NAG, such as:

1. She nagged at him all day along.
2. Some children complain that their parents nag at them.
3. I had a nagging feeling that I had forgotten something.
4. If she'd only stop nagging at me, I might actually help.
5. The nag was grazing at some distance, not suspecting any harm.

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 Meanings and Examples of NAG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nag
 v.  annoy by constant scolding, complaining, or urging
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  The master horse ordered a sorrel nag, one of his servants, to untie the largest of these animals, and take him into the yard.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
2  In this employment, a sorrel nag, one of the under-servants, was very ready to assist me.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
3  It happened, one morning early, that my master sent for me by the sorrel nag, who was his valet.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
4  Being one day abroad with my protector the sorrel nag, and the weather exceeding hot, I entreated him to let me bathe in a river that was near.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.
5  The nag was grazing at some distance, not suspecting any harm.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.
6  I had worked two chairs with my knife, the sorrel nag helping me in the grosser and more laborious part.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER X.
7  They couldn't be more than fifteen miles from home, but at the rate this old nag traveled it would take all day, for she would have to stop frequently to rest him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  They all ran out to the front porch and saw the tall grizzled old despot of Aunt Pitty's house climbing down from a rat-tailed nag on which a section of quilting had been strapped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  So rarely did she nag in this petty, hot-weather fashion that he was astonished rather than angry.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  I will go over to Michael Cross, and engage him to come behind on his swift nag, and keep a bright lookout on the road, and warn us if any company of men come on.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  When the horseman came up, he proved to be a student, a merry fellow, who was journeying along on his nag, and singing as he went.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE TURNIP
12  So saying, he trotted off on the student's nag, and left the poor fellow to gather wisdom till somebody should come and let him down.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE TURNIP
13  But beneath the slope, by the cart with the wounded near the panting little nag where Pierre stood, it was damp, somber, and sad.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XX
14  I drew near, and found he was bidding a hundred pistoles for a chestnut nag.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 28 THE RETURN
15  It was her gentle hardihood which irritated Scarlett more than the nagging whining voices of the others.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence:
1  Some children complain that their parents nag at them.
2  If she'd only stop nagging at me, I might actually help.
3  I had a nagging feeling that I had forgotten something.
4  He complained a little of a nagging pain between his shoulder blades.
5  She nagged at him all day along.
6  He nagged me so much for a new bike that eventually I gave in.