How to Use bother in a Sentence

bother

1 of 2 verb

• I'm not going to bother with the details.
• Something he said at the meeting has been bothering me.
• Mother used to cook elaborate dinners, but with only herself to cook for, she doesn't bother anymore.
• He's so easygoing. Nothing seems to bother him.
• The entire car trip was filled with complaints like, “Mom, David keeps bothering me!” and “Will you tell him to quit bothering me?”.
• If your loose skin bothers you, here's what to do next.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 2 Nov. 2023
• Like, why do the other girls even bother at this point?
  — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2023
• The thing that always bothered me [with other brands] was that there would be a seam up the front.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Aug. 2023
• These shoes did take a few days to get used to and the heel bothered our expert’s ankle.
  — Sherri Gordon, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
• Ask your other neighbors if they, too, are bothered by the noise.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
• He’s got plenty of ideas, and he can’t be bothered with someone else’s.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
• Either way, the studio never bothered to adapt the last three books.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• The Pogues didn’t bother with the authentic trad style of the Chieftains or De Danann — more like a wedding band gone berserk.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• And in many of these cases, doctors will not bother to order a blood test.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 15 Feb. 2024
• If the odds of winning the lottery are so low, why do people bother playing?
  — USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Cowell's criticism was mean, but the words didn't seem to bother Hung.
  — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 14 Jan. 2024
• Not being bothered, not talking to anybody on the phone.
  — Julie Jordan, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
• And why didn’t any Bronze Agers bother to retrieve all that soggy stuff?
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• There’s no full proof way to not be bothered on vacation.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 12 July 2023
• The second type of flying vehicle doesn't even bother with the road.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• The question of why Jeff Bezos, a man who can afford not to bother, wants to own the Washington Post haunts the pages of this book.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
• Months after the wedding, the woman shared in the post how she was still bothered by the situation.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
• And don't bother shrinking it with a hairdryer as the instructions say.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2023
• But the Eros is sick, man is uneasy, something is bothering him.
  — Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
• The cushioned heel and toe are super comfy and won’t bother their feet, while the breathable mesh on the top of the sock helps banish stinky tween feet.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 28 Mar. 2024
• With buffalo chicken bites this easy and good, who wants to bother with wing bones?
  — Melissa Gray, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2023
• As a young actor, Dunst didn’t have the confidence to speak up when things bothered her.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
• My dad used to always trick me into finding things out that he couldn’t be bothered to.
  — Jesse Ball, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Shelton said Djokovic’s end-of-match gesture didn’t bother him.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Since there wasn’t a ton of people at Curly’s at the time, the couple weren’t bothered for autographs or photos.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2024

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bother

2 of 2 noun

• He doesn't want the bother of filling out all those forms again.
• I know what a bother driving into the city can be this time of day.
• Replacing the windows could be more of a bother than it's worth.
• Will you mail this for me? It will save me the bother of going to the post office.
• I considered replacing that part of the floor but decided it wasn't worth the bother.
• Both of us agree the shrimp is sweet and springy and the fried chicken is a why bother.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022
• The couple could sit on the deck, and even in the shade of their trees, without bother.
  — Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• But the changes that have come with these names are hardly a bother.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 31 July 2022
• That saved them the cost of storage — or the bother of throwing them out.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021
• But why might any of this bother the high court’s justices?
  — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 14 June 2021
• Restaurants aren’t just places that save you the bother of cooking at home.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2022
• Deanna Laws, who lives about a mile from the mine on New Salem Road, said the mine was never a huge bother.
  — Kevin Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2022
• Montes’ stint with the Yard Goats brought Diaz and her bother for the first time in 50 years back to Hartford -- the city that had been their safe haven.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 8 Aug. 2021
• Decent action from shore and boat but winds from the southeast have been a bother.
  — sacbee, 18 Dec. 2017
• Her bother started selling drugs, and his business grew as the years went on.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 28 Feb. 2021
• If — one is — going to have a fight with somebody else — why bother and — have a meeting?
  — NBC News, 14 June 2021
• Humidity was enough to be felt but not too much of a bother.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
• Humidity is up a bit — enough to be felt but not a huge bother.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022
• Sorry to be a bother, RMV employees, but some of us have work to return to, kids to pick up, places to be.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
• The good news is that Mr. Pence isn’t likely to let these latest criticisms from the left bother him too much.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
• A couple of them can't really get a line out without a lot of grumbly fuss and bother.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2017
• The walls around the portrait are covered in splendid rivals, but no one bothers.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 2 June 2023
• Beer exported to the mainland must find its way over six miles of rough seas (which, Sam points out, saves the bother of shaking the casks).
  — Oliver Smith, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2020
• The law does not address any of the grievances raised by demonstrators over the past year, though that seemed to be of little bother to Lam.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 1 July 2020
• Just give Real Madrid the trophy and save everyone the bother.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2022
• At no point does the show bother to show us how Thomas de Geest got from the cabin to Flemish vigilante.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Other than the bother of moving them in and out as needed, this also works very well.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• But this was one of those rare nights when the Sox didn’t bother to show up, and the outcome was decided before most of the crowd had settled in.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• Neither time did this man show his face or bother to explain to me his story.
  — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 6 Oct. 2017
• Dents and dings are frequent bothers, these drivers say.
  — Christina Rogers, WSJ, 15 June 2018

Last Updated: 7 May 2024