How to Use trouble spot in a Sentence

trouble spot

noun
Definition of trouble spotnext
  • Simply place a clear patch over the trouble spot, and voilà!
    — Erin Michelle Newberg, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Stocks crash Wall Street would probably be the first trouble spot.
    — Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • But 79 games into the season, the Sox are second in the majors in errors with 53, and shortstop has been their biggest trouble spot.
    — Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • Another trouble spot is the bluff-top coastal tracks in Del Mar, where federal, state and local agencies have been working for years to stabilize the cliffs.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The state Department of Conservation and Recreation wrote on social media last week that the road is another trouble spot for truckers.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • City officials said the shooting happened in a middle-class neighborhood that authorities did not view as a trouble spot.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
  • Apartment buildings, long considered a real-estate haven, are emerging as the next major trouble spot in the beleaguered commercial-property world.
    — Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Cruise might have a problem with intersections Enlarge Cruise’s other trouble spot is intersections.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Problems are also popping up in another perennial trouble spot: the nation’s enormous and opaque shadow banking sector.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But another foreign trouble spot is now preoccupying Washington: the rogue nuclear state of North Korea.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The changes seek to increase diversity in the field, ramp up oversight on agreements between marijuana businesses and municipalities — a chronic trouble spot for the young industry — and move closer to social pot consumption sites.
    — Sam Drysdale, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Powell told lawmakers the biggest remaining trouble spot is inflation in underlying, non-housing related services, such as health care and education.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Another trouble spot could be state disability determination services, which make medical decisions on whether people applying for Social Security disability payments qualify for them, Romig said.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023

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