How to Use trouble in a Sentence
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Letting the 2015 deal go through would have saved a lot of trouble.
—Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
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Since Clinton High was the first school to test Brown, the media were alert to signs of trouble.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
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The last thing needed was more trouble with its 737 MAX jet.
—Sharon Terlep, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2024
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The ones that come after days of misery for your child: the fever, the cough, the runny nose, and trouble breathing.
—Emily Nadal, Parents, 20 July 2023
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The trouble is that my in-laws have no respect for our household rules.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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Few might have guessed Harlan would be the Crow to steer the company out of trouble.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
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This is not the first time Bryson has found himself in legal trouble.
—Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
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Sawyer was fired for his trouble, but the Yale campus is alone worth a visit to New Haven.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
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But guess what, our high school kids who were born here get in trouble sometimes too.
—Abigail Kramer, ProPublica, 3 Jan. 2024
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The first leg was a 2-2 draw at Boca and the second had to be abandoned twice because of crowd trouble.
—Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
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The Lakers were on shaky ground, five games below .500, and in real trouble.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
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Rondon, sensing trouble, ordered his dugout to pull to the side and called to Kermit’s canoe to do the same.
—Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
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There were signs earlier this year that Ukraine aid might be in trouble.
—Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
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Why is there so much trouble getting new homes built when demand is so high?
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
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If your loan already has a competitive rate, a new one might not be worth the trouble.
—Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 19 July 2023
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The surest sign a college football program is in trouble is when the alumni grow restless.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
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Gaza may be where the war is happening now, but across the Middle East the warning lights of more trouble to come are blinking red.
—Ben Wedeman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
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Some scientists say that even if the ocean were full of king salmon, the Southern Residents would still be in trouble.
—Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
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Ways to sleep Most people think sleep can’t get any more straightforward: lay down on a soft bed, close your eyes, and let go of all troubles for the night.
—Brianna Kamienski, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
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The Orioles’ right-handed starter still had trouble falling asleep.
—Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2023
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Deputy Tyler Kohl arrived at the scene at 10:01 p.m., expecting to help somebody with car trouble.
—USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
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That said, there are plenty of models that bridge both worlds, so to speak, and can be used in most climates without too much trouble.
—Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
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As in most movies, when the real world and fantasy worlds collide, trouble ensues in both.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2023
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There are many reasons a person may have trouble losing weight.
—Paige Hagy, Fortune Well, 1 Aug. 2023
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Rhythm & Hues wasn’t the only VFX studio facing troubles.
—WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
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Surely there will be more trouble, and, thus, more adventures ahead.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 20 Apr. 2023
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This meant that at least that part of her testimony, the medical trouble, was true.
—Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
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Evans has also stood by her estranged husband over the years amid legal trouble.
—Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
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Anyone doubting that the German economy is in trouble has not been paying attention to the fact that last year Germany ...
—Desmond Lachman, National Review, 10 Apr. 2024
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These were often bootlegs, copied from foreign home-video releases or tapes that his employees procured at film festivals, and Kim faced persistent legal troubles as a result.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
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She is troubled by the metronome ticking, a knock at the door, a scream in the woods.
—Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
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But Fritz does have a heavy serve and the kind of game that could trouble Nadal on grass.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
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But that didn’t seem to trouble Intel for the past 15 years.
—Barry Collins, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
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Elie was troubled, though, and rang to check on her the next morning.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
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But are you troubled by Elon Musk as a tribune for the cause?
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
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In the past, the Lakers would have made a big push to sign troubled Kyrie Irving.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
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That is to say, don’t trouble yourselves, boys and girls.
—Maxim Osipov, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
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Despite their close bond, both are troubled by a ghost from the past.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
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But a state trooper was troubled by the fact that there were no skid marks.
—David Begnaud, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2024
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Two shots from the U.S. failed to trouble the Dutch goalkeeper.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2022
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But what seems to trouble Nilsen most is the change among Russian people.
—Time, 10 Aug. 2023
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The Browns’ defensive line should be able to trouble the Vikings.
—Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
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But this isn’t the only problem that’s troubled the probe.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
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Many of us are troubled by hair loss or thinning hair, but there is hope.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2023
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In fact, there’s always plenty about this team to be troubled about.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
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None of them seem troubled by the novice director not knowing what his film will be about.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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Panama troubled Tunisia in the team’s opening group match in Russia, but the north African side came from a goal behind to win 2-1.
—Matias Grez, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
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For Phillips, this means letting people speak freely about things that are troubling them.
—Saira Mueller, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
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Even the increasing sloppy mud didn’t seem to trouble him.
—Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2022
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So sing to your kids, dance with them, but don't trouble yourself over exposing them to the best genre of music.
—Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 28 June 2022
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Their defense has only been around league average since the break, which isn’t enough to trouble this Suns team.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2022
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Such matters need not trouble you, as you have been misinformed about the basic premise.
—Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
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This is pushing up wages — not enough to keep up with inflation but enough to trouble central bankers.
—New York Times, 8 June 2022
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The city’s jails have been troubled for decades, but the most recent crisis began in March 2020, when the pandemic arrived in New York.
—Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, 18 July 2023
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But fans who witnessed it were troubled by the fan’s crass act after an emotional evening.
—Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
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Her brother, who had been troubled since childhood, shot and killed himself.
—David Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2023
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The next one to trouble us could be like Delta, speedy and a shade more severe yet still trounceable with existing vaccines.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022
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The regime was also troubled by the country’s struggling economy, which was about to be hit with more sanctions.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
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As publication loomed, this fact troubled me more and more.
—Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2023
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However, one suspects the gnashing of teeth will trouble Hayek and Swatch very little.
—Tim Barber, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
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