Sample Sentences for
badger
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(editor-reviewed)

badger as in:  badgered her until she agreed

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Stop badgering me. I gave you my answer and I'm not going to change it.
badgering = nagging
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    It's not helpful if you belittle and badger her until she is too defensive to rationally discuss the issue.
    badger = repeatedly annoy or bother
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    And she doesn't seem to mind when I badger her with questions or paw through her things.  (source)
    badger = nag or repeatedly bother
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    Cassie had a good friend who had transferred there some time earlier, and it wasn't long before she began to badger us about how much she disliked CFS, and how badly she wanted to be at Columbine.  (source)
    badger = repeatedly annoy or bother
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    In English class, everyone badgered Mr. Birkway to finish reading the journal entry that he had begun yesterday, the one about Mrs. Corpse and the body, but Mr. Birkway did not read any more journals.  (source)
    badgered = nagged or repeatedly bothered
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    He'd been badgering us all day about taking the kerosene heater.  (source)
    badgering = nagging or repeatedly bothering
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    It's no time to badger her.  (source)
    badger = repeatedly annoy or bother
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    His face became tight as I badgered him relentlessly.  (source)
    badgered = nagged or repeatedly bothered
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    It was shortly after this that he began badgering me to go into analysis.  (source)
    badgering = nagging or repeatedly bothering
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    They constantly badgered me to do the "James Brown" for them, a squiggling of the feet made famous by the "Godfather of Soul" himself, who back in the sixties was bigger than life.  (source)
    badgered = nagged or repeatedly asked
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    Far from badgering me into submission, Moody's rage ultimately steeled my will.  (source)
    badgering = nagging or repeatedly bothering
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    They gave me advice, badgered clerks on my behalf.  (source)
    badgered = nagged or repeatedly annoyed
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    And on days when he felt particularly inspired, he spiced up his badgering a little,†  (source)
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    Then Bella recognized the young man: It was Charles Livingston, the law student Yetta had badgered with her questions about union rights.  (source)
    badgered = nagged or repeatedly bothered
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badger as in:  saw a badger

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There are eight species of badger.
badger = a mammal that digs tunnels with strong claws
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    Wisconsin is called "The Badger" state because lead miners who settled there in the 1800s spent winter nights burrowed into the hillside like the mammals.
    badger = a type of mammal that digs tunnels with strong claws
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    Professor McGonagall was shouting at someone who, by the sound of it, had turned his friend into a badger.  (source)
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    Tyrion spied the red ox of the Presters, Lord Crakehall's brindled boar, the burning tree of Marbrand, the badger of Lydden.  (source)
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    Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.  (source)
    badger = burrowing mammal with strong claws
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    In Montana, the only animals that dug holes like that were gophers and badgers, and Roy was positive there weren't many of those in Florida.  (source)
    badgers = mammals that dig tunnels with strong claws
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    Tummeler puffed up his chest in a gesture of badgerly defiance.†  (source)
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    Just beyond the tottering desk was a largemouth bass mounted on the wall; in every corner, along the walls, and atop the file cabinet and desk were stuffed critters: beavers, rabbits, squirrels, opossums, skunks, and a badger.  (source)
    badger = a type of mammal that digs tunnels with strong claws
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    Bears and Badgers followed at a slower pace.  (source)
    Badgers = mammals that dig tunnels with strong claws
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    Bill came home and started to badger Joy about washing the dishes.†  (source)
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    As if to emphasize her point, birds, deer, squirrels-red and gray-striped badgers, foxes, rabbits, wolves, frogs, toads, tortoises, and every other nearby animal forsook their hiding and began to rush madly about with a cacophony of yelps and cries.  (source)
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    If an irritated badger had taken issue with me, I would have been doomed.†  (source)
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    If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it, you'd be amazed at all the animals that would fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants in untold numbers.  (source)
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    That badger went underground and stayed there.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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It was Pol Slattery's Badger Army, and they refused to give up.  (source)
Badger = the name of a group in this novel (based upon the animal known for its burrows and aggressive defense)
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