TROUBLING in a Sentence

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373 example sentences for TROUBLING, such as:
1. Oh, sorry for troubling you.
2. He never troubled himself about his status.
3. Benson looked troubled when he heard the news.
4. He is troubled in spirit/His spirit is troubled.
5. She's troubled by her son's inclination toward atheism.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TROUBLING
troubling
 v.  move deeply
 v.  to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Finally, the officers, without troubling themselves very much about Oliver, left the Chertsey constable in the house, and took up their rest for that night in the town; promising to return the next morning.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  'I'll let her a little blood, without troubling the doctor, if she's took that way again,' said Sikes.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  "Good morning, reddleman," she said, hardly troubling to lift her heavily shaded eyes to his.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
4  When I first got away from home I thought this place was not worth troubling about.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
5  If one were handed to him he was to bring it immediately; if not, he was to go straight home without troubling to come round to Blooms-End again that night.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
6  With a resigned air and a somewhat weary smile, Holmes begged the beautiful intruder to take a seat, and to inform us what it was that was troubling her.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
7  Grandpa's lumbago was troubling him greatly and the Captain wanted to discharge him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  "All," she said shortly, not even troubling to blush at his implication.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  Perhaps if I did not move, he would find it and get out without troubling me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
10  Every night there were stabbings and shootings; it was said that the packers had blank permits, which enabled them to ship dead bodies from the city without troubling the authorities.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
11  Cosette, without troubling herself to understand anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
12  She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her nakedness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY
13  All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
14  In this peaceful street where he had taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him for some time past.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
15  It got to troubling me so I couldn't rest; I couldn't stay still in one place.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
Example Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
1  His overall Latin American policy is just as troubling so no country welcomes his visiting until now.
2  He was already preparing for a possible war with Iraq when he got the troubling news about North Korea's nuclear program.
3  Oh, sorry for troubling you.
4  Some troubling questions remain about the legal status of frozen embryos.
5  She's troubled by her son's inclination toward atheism.
6  Benson looked troubled when he heard the news.
7  Large numbers of refugees continue to flow from the troubled region into the no-man's land.
8  For troubled marriages, researcher Karen Kayser has found, follow a pattern.
9  He is troubled in spirit/His spirit is troubled.
10  Robert held her gaze for a long time, his expression grim and slightly troubled.
11  He never troubled himself about his status.
12  Both partners now resent your interference; that's what you get when you fish in the troubled waters of marital strife.
13  But Egypt's role as a mediator in this troubled region would be seriously undermined if it broke off links with Israel.
14  Both are established companies blindsided by new innovators and troubled almost as much by pride and internal fiefs as by technology shifts.
15  But Bush's business record, enmeshed in international finance and some troubled former ventures in south Florida, could end up complicating his return to politics and his hopes to follow his father, George H.W. Bush, and his older brother, George W. Bush, into the Oval Office.