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
Oh, depend upon it, it was whatever was stupidest to send, and most calculated to give trouble; if it was sent, that is to say!
From A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
He had been a strong and healthy man, but wounds, complicated by comminuted bones, give trouble in the cold of that country, and the very indifferent food had further militated against his recovery.
From Delilah of the Snows by Bindloss, Harold
