give trouble

Example Sentences

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“He has a great chance to give trouble to the other horses, which I never want.”

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2016

Then its new-type disk brakes began to give trouble, and it began to drop back.

From Time Magazine Archive

You’re not to fret, Matt; we mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadder.”

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

And to-day the same pusillanimous policy sacrifices prohibition to the fear that the munition-workers might give trouble.

From Stand Up, Ye Dead by Maclean, Norman

Sulla knew that Mithridates would sooner or later give trouble again: but for the time being the danger was over.

From Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men by Hamilton, Mary Agnes