And of course it was the best excuse for getting involved, although she pushed back a niggling suspicion that that carried more weight than it should.

Jake had a niggling suspicion Gordon's definition might be different from his own.

Conrig groaned at the prospect, and Snudge knew that his niggling suspicions about the king were correct.

His first niggling suspicion began to look like the truth.

She dismissed the niggling suspicion as invalid.

Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something.

Witt didn't like that image one bit, especially since he had the niggling suspicion she might be right about him.

He came out of it with a niggling suspicion that time had passed.

Next time he would explain the advantages in practical, no-nonsense terms, but he had a niggling suspicion it wouldn't do any good.

And even beyond that, there were the quiet niggling suspicions that murmured at the back of Owen's mind and wouldn't be silenced.