bother
Example Sentences
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Most action film directors and writers don’t bother explaining why hard cases like Ward, Cruz and Vanderohe would wager their lives against overwhelming odds.
From Salon
It'll be interesting to see whether this is actually enforced as we struggle to imagine Meryl Streep bothering with that level of admin.
From BBC
But if anybody bothered to click through their TV provider’s schedules that day, they may have cheered right up at seeing that MTV is very much alive.
From Salon
The bus driver was a small shrew who didn’t bother much with discipline, as he was too busy trying to see far enough over the steering wheel to drive without killing anything.
From Literature
But the only test the Herdmans ever bothered to take was the eye test.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
