Examples of “chivvy” in a Sentence

verb (informal) To keep pushing someone to hurry up and do something.

• We don't have time to respond to emails or any attempts to chivvy us up – sorry. — , The Albert Sessions (2007)
• He headed for home, walking a little faster now, as if chivied along by some old cold wind that didn't quite reach the sunlit world. — Gardner Dozois, Executive Clemency (1981)

verb To nag or verbally pester someone repeatedly.

• Toby played the lightly chivvied ‘husband’ very sweetly, and Sophie claimed him in the childish ways of someone experimenting with her power, with little exasperations and innuendos. — Alan Hollinghurst (2004)