How to Use trouble in a Sentence

trouble

1 of 2 noun

• I had a little trouble finding the place.
• He had no trouble finding a new job.
• The new system is giving me trouble.
• She has been having trouble with her knee.
• He's always getting in trouble at school.
• He was having trouble with his homework.
• She got into trouble with her credit cards.
• When the new CEO arrived, the company was in trouble.
• Letting the 2015 deal go through would have saved a lot of trouble.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• Since Clinton High was the first school to test Brown, the media were alert to signs of trouble.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• The last thing needed was more trouble with its 737 MAX jet.
  — Sharon Terlep, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2024
• The ones that come after days of misery for your child: the fever, the cough, the runny nose, and trouble breathing.
  — Emily Nadal, Parents, 20 July 2023
• The trouble is that my in-laws have no respect for our household rules.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Few might have guessed Harlan would be the Crow to steer the company out of trouble.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• This is not the first time Bryson has found himself in legal trouble.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
• Sawyer was fired for his trouble, but the Yale campus is alone worth a visit to New Haven.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
• But guess what, our high school kids who were born here get in trouble sometimes too.
  — Abigail Kramer, ProPublica, 3 Jan. 2024
• The first leg was a 2-2 draw at Boca and the second had to be abandoned twice because of crowd trouble.
  — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• The Lakers were on shaky ground, five games below .500, and in real trouble.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• Rondon, sensing trouble, ordered his dugout to pull to the side and called to Kermit’s canoe to do the same.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• There were signs earlier this year that Ukraine aid might be in trouble.
  — Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Why is there so much trouble getting new homes built when demand is so high?
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• If your loan already has a competitive rate, a new one might not be worth the trouble.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 19 July 2023
• The surest sign a college football program is in trouble is when the alumni grow restless.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Gaza may be where the war is happening now, but across the Middle East the warning lights of more trouble to come are blinking red.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• Some scientists say that even if the ocean were full of king salmon, the Southern Residents would still be in trouble.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Ways to sleep Most people think sleep can’t get any more straightforward: lay down on a soft bed, close your eyes, and let go of all troubles for the night.
  — Brianna Kamienski, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• The Orioles’ right-handed starter still had trouble falling asleep.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2023
• Deputy Tyler Kohl arrived at the scene at 10:01 p.m., expecting to help somebody with car trouble.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
• That said, there are plenty of models that bridge both worlds, so to speak, and can be used in most climates without too much trouble.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024

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trouble

2 of 2 verb

• I don't mean to trouble you, but I have a question.
• I'm troubled by his strange behavior.
• The accusations troubled him deeply.
• She is troubled by the metronome ticking, a knock at the door, a scream in the woods.
  — Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
• But Fritz does have a heavy serve and the kind of game that could trouble Nadal on grass.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
• But that didn’t seem to trouble Intel for the past 15 years.
  — Barry Collins, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• Elie was troubled, though, and rang to check on her the next morning.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
• But are you troubled by Elon Musk as a tribune for the cause?
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• In the past, the Lakers would have made a big push to sign troubled Kyrie Irving.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
• That is to say, don’t trouble yourselves, boys and girls.
  — Maxim Osipov, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• Despite their close bond, both are troubled by a ghost from the past.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• But a state trooper was troubled by the fact that there were no skid marks.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2024
• Two shots from the U.S. failed to trouble the Dutch goalkeeper.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2022
• But what seems to trouble Nilsen most is the change among Russian people.
  — Time, 10 Aug. 2023
• The Browns’ defensive line should be able to trouble the Vikings.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
• But this isn’t the only problem that’s troubled the probe.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• Many of us are troubled by hair loss or thinning hair, but there is hope.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2023
• In fact, there’s always plenty about this team to be troubled about.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• None of them seem troubled by the novice director not knowing what his film will be about.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Panama troubled Tunisia in the team’s opening group match in Russia, but the north African side came from a goal behind to win 2-1.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• For Phillips, this means letting people speak freely about things that are troubling them.
  — Saira Mueller, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
• Even the increasing sloppy mud didn’t seem to trouble him.
  — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2022
• So sing to your kids, dance with them, but don't trouble yourself over exposing them to the best genre of music.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 28 June 2022
• Their defense has only been around league average since the break, which isn’t enough to trouble this Suns team.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2022
• Such matters need not trouble you, as you have been misinformed about the basic premise.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
• This is pushing up wages — not enough to keep up with inflation but enough to trouble central bankers.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2022
• The city’s jails have been troubled for decades, but the most recent crisis began in March 2020, when the pandemic arrived in New York.
  — Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, 18 July 2023
• But fans who witnessed it were troubled by the fan’s crass act after an emotional evening.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Her brother, who had been troubled since childhood, shot and killed himself.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2023
• The next one to trouble us could be like Delta, speedy and a shade more severe yet still trounceable with existing vaccines.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024