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.—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 See All Example Sentences for pesky
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