troublemaking

Example Sentences

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Then there is 12-year-old Harper, the prodigy, who has no outlet for her intelligence except troublemaking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

Ms. Cruz-Rivas, 42, moved to Charleston during the coronavirus pandemic, drawn by significantly higher wages and a desire to distance her teenage sons, Jevon and Amon, from troublemaking friends.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2023

The report causes you to think back to June 22, when Goodell focused on the Washington organization’s transformation as if to say that all of Snyder’s troublemaking was in the past.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2022

One came across as a quiet, reserved, eloquent, thoughtful force of nature; the other as a boisterous, querulous, troublemaking and sometimes thoughtless and mean force of nature.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022

Mama tries to look impressed, but in fact, she’s never liked her troublemaking uncle very much.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez