BADGER in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for BADGER, such as:

1. She badgered another group into going skiing.
2. She badgered me for weeks until I finally gave in.
3. And he knows where foxes and badgers and otters live.
4. The best quality men's shaving brushes are made from badger bristle.
5. It is very cold on the floor, and this is warm like the badger hole.

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 Meanings and Examples of BADGER
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badger
 v.  pester; annoy persistently; persuade through constant efforts
Classic Sentence:
1  It's no better than a badger hole; no proper dugout at all.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
2  ONE AFTERNOON WE WERE having our reading lesson on the warm, grassy bank where the badger lived.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
3  Those dogs, she said, went down into the hole after the badger and killed him there in a terrific struggle underground; you could hear the barks and yelps outside.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
4  She knew a dog who had a star on his collar for every badger he had killed.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
5  It is very cold on the floor, and this is warm like the badger hole.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
6  I tell you what, young fellow," said she, "I didn't bring you up by hand to badger people's lives out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
7  And he knows where foxes and badgers and otters live.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  She badgered another group into going skiing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  He was not going to be badgered of his life, like a kitten chased by boys, he said.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence:
1  She is forced to change her telephone number because obscene phone calls badger her.
2  The best quality men's shaving brushes are made from badger bristle.
3  She'll also be badgered to recant her 12 year affiliation with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.
4  She badgered me for weeks until I finally gave in.