Trouble

//ˈtɹʌb.əl//

"Trouble" in a Sentence (40 examples)

More people get into trouble for things they say rather than for what they do.

You needn't have gone to the trouble.

You're always anticipating trouble.

Your father went through all that trouble for your sake.

The trouble with you is that you talk too much.

You'll get into trouble if your girlfriend finds out the truth.

You need not take the trouble to go there.

If you're not prepared to take the trouble to learn how to train a dog, don't get one.

After all the trouble we went to in coming up with that project, it only took them a second to shoot it down in the meeting.

That was well worth the trouble.

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He was in trouble when the rain started.

The trouble was a leaking brake line.

The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.

Lest the fiend […] some new trouble raise.

Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles.

’Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me no-ow

Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor ⁠An inner trouble I behold, ⁠A spectral doubt which makes me cold, That I shall be thy mate no more, […]

Your trouble is that you quit too readily.

The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion.

the troubles in Northern Ireland

“I don’t know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there’ll be trouble. It’s bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that ’cause I'm paid for it. What I won’t stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”

It’s no trouble for me to edit it.

She never took the trouble to close them.

Indeed, by the report of our elders, this nervous preparation for old age is only trouble thrown away.

She has trouble eating.

He’s been in hospital with some heart trouble.

My old car has engine trouble.

He had some trouble with the law.

I never had schoolin’ but he taught me well / With his smooth southern style / Three months later I’m a gal in trouble / And I haven’t seen him for a while.

For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water:

God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt

What she said about narcissism is troubling me.

Now is my soule troubled, and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre, but for this cause came I vnto this houre.

Take the Boy to you: he ſo troubles me, / ’Tis paſt enduring.

Never trouble your ſelf about thoſe Faults in them, which you know Age will cure.

I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.

My bad knee is troubling me.

I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.

« The hut’s not very tidy, if you don’t mind, » he said. « I cleared it what I could. » / « But I didn’t want you to trouble! » she said.

Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.

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