Want to use Bother correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like trouble or reach.

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Bother in a sentence

Bother | Both | Bothered | Bothering | Bothers | Bothersome

Bother meaning

  1. To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
  2. Damn; curse.

Synonyms of Bother

trouble reach strive inconvenience oneself trouble oneself negative stimulus infliction pain botheration annoyance disturbance perturbation hassle fuss strain

Bother in Dutch

moeite doen

Example sentences (20)

If the trash items don't bother you but constantly carrying around Bait to stock Crab Pots does, choose Luremaster.

That likely came as a major relief to the game's developers, and it seems the gun's presence didn't bother players.

He knows that left to our devices that we can cause our own ruin without his having to bother us very much at all.

Spinoff shows often change canon to develop new storylines and characters, but usually not enough to bother viewers.

Remarkably, the owner of the vehicle didn't even bother to let the poor business owner know what he was in for.

Being a beginner is okay; what’s not okay is being a novice – that is, a beginner who didn’t bother to learn the basics.

Does it bother you that people might be listening to this podcast out of one of those very same smart devices.

In August, shoppers asked “why bother?” about an itsy bitsy plaid bikini that could never be worn in public.

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Naturally, with the price of admission so reasonably set at just £15, Fiona has no bother filling halls across the country.

He told us not to bother getting out any pyjamas we had brought, as we would in future be sleeping ‘in the buff’ as he put it.

She assumed that the duality of being pregnant and still covering cannabis could bother certain people.

As such, most Trainers in the anime didn't bother to specify whether their Pokémon were boys or girls.

Darren Gargan, the maintenance manager who bought the ticket, said he initially didn't bother to check as he was busy with work.

I don’t have any issues with Kyogo going into this game and the missed chances don’t bother me at all.

I was crushed at her words, but also confused because she didn’t bother to tell me he was hospitalized until 10 days had passed.

Not that it seemed to bother them, the first try coming crazy early, to Mark Telea off an old-school Beauden Barrett cross-kick.

It doesn’t really bother Crump: “You can’t care what the enemies of equality think of you,” he said.

A common complaint about Social Security is that members of Congress don’t bother fixing the program because it doesn’t cover them.

After that incident, I wondered why I had a panic attack although the men did not even look at me, let alone bother or threaten me.

If it was 100% impossible to defeat Nigeria, Rohr and Benin will not bother to play the qualifiers.

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Common combinations with bother

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • to bother 31×
  • bother with 27×
  • bother to 26×
  • didn bother 17×
  • don bother 15×
  • bother me 15×
  • not bother 13×
  • even bother 13×
  • why bother 13×
  • bother you 11×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "bother" in a sentence?
An example: "If the trash items don't bother you but constantly carrying around Bait to stock Crab Pots does, choose Luremaster." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "bother" from real English texts.
What does "bother" mean?
Bother means: To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
What are synonyms of "bother"?
Common synonyms of "bother" include: trouble, reach, strive, inconvenience oneself, trouble oneself, negative stimulus, infliction, pain. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "bother" in Dutch?
"bother" translates to Dutch as: moeite doen.
How many example sentences with "bother" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "bother", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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