Examples of pesky in a Sentence
I've been trying to get rid of this pesky cold for weeks.
the pesky problem of what to do with all the leftovers
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It’s built to resist pesky tangles, power through daily messes with super-strong suction, and run up to 50 minutes on a single charge.
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Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
Three of the four Blue Jays that Sheehan faced reached safely against him, showing the kind of pesky and drawn-out, contact-filled at-bats that have made Toronto such a menace this postseason.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Building a bat house can encourage them to stick around a little longer and eat up all those pesky insects.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
The problem, at least from the pesky standpoint of automotive safety, is that a self-driving Tesla on the Mad Max setting will apparently reach those speeds regardless of local limits.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
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Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
Three of the four Blue Jays that Sheehan faced reached safely against him, showing the kind of pesky and drawn-out, contact-filled at-bats that have made Toronto such a menace this postseason.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Building a bat house can encourage them to stick around a little longer and eat up all those pesky insects.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
The problem, at least from the pesky standpoint of automotive safety, is that a self-driving Tesla on the Mad Max setting will apparently reach those speeds regardless of local limits.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Pesky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pesky. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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