bother
Example Sentences
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Straight away we’re suspicious that Carney and co-screenwriter Peter McDonald stashed this story in a drawer ages ago and didn’t bother to dust it off.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Twenty years ago, founders proudly eschewed fashion and decorum, too busy writing code and devising a new world order to bother with pleasantries, like basic manners and French cuffs.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Given the incredibly small odds any one ballot will make the difference, why does anybody bother?
From Slate • May 15, 2026
"Walking downhill, whenever your foot slides into the very end of your shoe is when it maybe gives me a bit of bother but it's totally fine. A mountain out of a molehill."
From BBC • May 13, 2026
I will not lie to you and say it did not bother Clare, being called a monster.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing bother
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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