TROUBLE in a Sentence

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373 example sentences for TROUBLE, such as:

1. I swear, darkies are more trouble.
2. I don't want to cause you trouble.
3. She is having trouble with her teeth.
4. A hasty man is seldom out of trouble.
5. We've been having trouble getting staff.

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 Meanings and Examples of TROUBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
trouble
 n.  difficulty or problems
 v.  put to inconvenience, exertion, pains
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "If there's going to be any trouble I want to be there," was his vague reflection, as he threw to Jotham the unexpected order to unhitch the team and lead them back to the barn.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  His mother had been a talker in her day, but after her "trouble" the sound of her voice was seldom heard, though she had not lost the power of speech.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  Of late, however, since he had reasons for observing her more closely, her silence had begun to trouble him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  But their evening together had given him a vision of what life at her side might be, and he was glad now that he had done nothing to trouble the sweetness of the picture.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
5  "I don't want you should trouble either," he said, looking down into her eyes with a smile.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  I swear, darkies are more trouble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  He had been drinking and wore the arrogant looking-for-a-fight expression that she knew from experience meant trouble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  Lucky for Ashley that he had an unassailable reputation for courage, or else there'd be trouble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  The trouble with most of us Southerners," continued Rhett Butler, "is that we either don't travel enough or we don't profit enough by our travels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  Probably India had been pleading with him not to follow Mr. Butler and make trouble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  All Scarlett O'Hara has ever done has been to stir up trouble and try to get other girls' beaux.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  But she'd already acted common enough today, enough like white trash--that was where all her trouble lay.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  But Scarlett, had she wished to speak, could have told them that it was a far different and more complex trouble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel twenty miles for a visit, the visit was seldom of shorter duration than a month, usually much longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  "Most of them would look a lot finer in gray uniforms and in Virginia," she said, and she did not trouble to lower her voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
16  Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
17  One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.
18  A hasty man is seldom out of trouble.
19  Cry myself laugh to watch my own trouble.
20  The trouble is there aren't any trains at that time.
21  I don't want to cause you trouble.
22  He was really terrific when I was in trouble.
23  The trouble began just after ten o'clock last night.
24  She is having trouble with her teeth.
25  There's been a bit of trouble at the office.
26  We've been having trouble getting staff.
27  He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble.
28  If there were less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
29  He's quite capable of lying to get out of trouble.
30  Revealing confidential information to a rival company could land you in serious trouble with your boss.