How to Use bothered in a Sentence

bothered

adjective
  • Lamah couldn't be bothered to work back and try to win the ball.
    — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Page then took a sip from snifter which got the ladies hot and bothered.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Siwa laughs about the video now, and doesn't seem too bothered.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 1 June 2021
  • The second-round pick missed six games with the injury but doesn’t seem bothered by it now.
    — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Luckily, the kids don't seem too bothered.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Holmes didn't seem the least bit bothered by the heat wave in her cabin-chic ensemble.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2022
  • The swell is a reasonable three to four feet, and none of the others seem the least bit bothered.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
  • So nobody seemed the least bit bothered that their beloved truss might never see the Seine.
    — Shawn McCreesh, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Two volcanoes that get the interwebs all hot and bothered have made the news in the last week.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2014
  • So if downtown folks are so hot and bothered, why does Ultra keep coming back?
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2024
  • But what’s most interesting about the fracas is that schools are so hot and bothered.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • After all, Reese is a busy lady and can't be bothered fussing with a floor-length gown.
    — Christina Amoroso, Cosmopolitan, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The script got several studios and streamers hot and bothered.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The typical advice is to avoid coffee, tea and ice, but Jones is less bothered.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Have the best play in it, not get snubbed because tanking teams can’t be bothered to field players good enough to make it there on their own.
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 4 July 2019
  • Doctor Strange, meanwhile, always seems bothered to be asked.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2022
  • Meanwhile, Kushner does not seem bothered by losing some of his old pals.
    — Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 15 June 2018
  • The average person would probably start to feel bothered at around eight pounds.
    — Amber Dance, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Players didn't seem bothered, nor did the rain seem to effect the quarterbacks' and receivers' grip on the ball.
    — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Timbaland’s beats were icy and clanging; her delivery was hot and bothered.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, the other cat couldn't be less bothered about the new kitten, hiding away inside the hooded top tier of the cat tree.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • Jacinto isn't the only bad guy in genre TV who has audiences hot and bothered.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 July 2024
  • The Mets starter didn’t seem bothered by trade rumors, allowing one unearned run and five hits in 7⅓ innings.
    — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2019
  • Amid the old tires and mattresses dumped on the riverbank, mounds of rank green weeds gave refuge to birds and grasshoppers, which didn’t seem bothered by the fecal stench.
    — Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • News Live anchor Steve Kmetko is a little bothered when reporters get pop culture facts wrong.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 27 May 2024
  • According to Felstead, Billy does not seem too bothered about the whole ordeal.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2022
  • But the machinery wore out in the late 1760s, leaving politicians as hot and bothered as ever.
    — WSJ, 20 June 2019
  • This is definitely the Louis Knight that got the judges all hot and bothered during the audition round.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Logano did not seem bothered by the start of Speedweeks and both qualifying races were much calmer than last week’s Busch Clash.
    — Jenna Fryer, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The security guard had mentioned that the wine hadn’t yet been filtered, but Liu and Fatty didn’t seem bothered.
    — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2013

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