How to Use troubled in a Sentence

troubled

adjective

• These have been troubled times.
• She seemed troubled about something.
• The Panthers tend to shy away from prospects with troubled backgrounds.
  — Jourdan Rodrigue, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Josiah, who had already had the closest brush with the FBI among the three young men, was perhaps the most troubled.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• The troubled site was given to the church in the 1950s by the family of oil baron Edward Doheny.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• The moment when the dad gets the call telling him whether his daughter is dead or alive will rip the heart out of any parent with a troubled child.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 6 July 2023
• Frizzell is troubled, too, by the endemic reckless driving in the city.
  — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
• That leaves the Pac-12 with nine schools — for now — and no media rights deal beyond the upcoming school year with the Big Ten again eyeing the troubled league.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 3 Aug. 2023
• And seven American kids who were sent to a school for troubled teens are stuck in Jamaica.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Indeed, the cops had repeatedly signalled an impulse to chalk the case up as the suicide of a troubled kid.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• The troubled bank said clients are still withdrawing assets.
  — Jamey Keaten, ajc, 25 Apr. 2023
• Learning that Shuo comes from a troubled background, Wei’s parents welcome this boy to spend more time in their home.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
• That’s not the only film dealing with the country’s troubled racial history.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
• About half of those troubled properties were hotels, according to the study by Trepp LLC.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• As men shout and jeer, her confident smile falters, replaced by a troubled frown.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 20 July 2023
• The use of injunctions and seizures against troubled device makers has also dropped.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
• Amanda had a teenage criminal record and landed at a school for troubled teens before joining the Navy.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 May 2023
• Rodriguez stars as a troubled ex-soldier who fights to save her family as the world spirals out of control.
  — Starr Savoy, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
• The film follows a troubled teen named Noah (Ethan Drew), who nearly gets caught stealing a top-secret gadget from some big city thugs.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 16 May 2023
• Raines was felled, in large part, by the plagiarism and fraud perpetrated by a troubled young reporter, Jayson Blair.
  — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• And the troubled lives of the women who gave birth to them, along with the slim options for reclaiming their children, rarely find a space in the public imagination.
  — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• But for Oats, the game of basketball has always shared a prominent role in his life alongside his faith and desire to help those who are troubled.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 24 Mar. 2023
• But Cox has been a frequent critic of Strong's intense method acting for his portrayal of troubled Kendall.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• In their quest to cover up the truth to save face, the brothers are forced to confront their own troubled relationship and deal with their dead father’s secret love life.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Dec. 2023
• But two of the ships are just seven years old and part of the troubled Littoral Combat ship class that has been sharply criticized by watchdogs for wasteful spending.
  — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
• This story of troubled redemption will tug at your heartstrings.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
• Also, most young Russians are not raised in troubled neighborhoods, but on the Internet.
  — TIME, 8 Jan. 2024
• In the new film sequel, the audience hears things from the perspective of the troubled characters in the first film, including Sebastián, the new film's main character.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 19 July 2023
• Lawmakers had been split over how to create the office that would handle complaints about the state’s troubled child welfare system and who should control it.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2024
• Trump is expected to turn himself in at the Fulton County jail, which has long been a troubled facility.
  — Eric Tucker, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024