Acted like Xanthippe

Usage examples of nagged.

She had sulked and nagged and wept, terrified that each time he left her would be the last, that he'd come home in a coffin.

She had thought that his close brush with death would bring him to his senses and for once she hadn't raged and nagged at him when he returned.

I made myself sick with worry and nagged him to death, and in the end he walked out.

It nagged at her all during dinner, where Serena entertained Blake with a wholly fictitious tale of their shopping trip.

It seemed forever, and it nagged at him, be­cause he felt as if he should know exactly.

She paused as something nagged at her memory, but she couldn't bring the elusive detail into focus.

The thought nagged at him after he left Jay and returned to his own room in the biting cold of dawn.

That left watching television, reading, or doing the laundry She leaned toward reading, but the need to do laundry nagged at her conscience.

I think it embarrasses him that his kids nagged him into hiring a bodyquard.

Even as a kid puzzles had nagged at him, and he couldn't stop until they were solved.

Yes, they'd made love and she'd agreed to give him some time, a chance to see if they could work things out, but the temporary nature of the agreement nagged at him.

Since Keff had first heard about Moto-Prosthetic bodies for brains, he had nagged Carialle to order one.

The resemblance nagged at her even as the interoceanic air vehicle circled the small fishing town.

When he found the Fleet reluctant to overindulge, he nagged the girls and the three men to “eat, drink, and be merry.

Something in the Weyrleader’s comment nagged at the edge of his consciousness.