How to Use trouble in a Sentence
- 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.
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My love life is so free of trouble.
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Rachel Desantis,
PEOPLE,
26 June 2026
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But his troubles were not over.
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Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
19 Sep. 2025
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The wind and cold are trouble, too.
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Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
20 Sep. 2025
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Who wants to get the boss in trouble?
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Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Feb. 2026
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Then his heart got him in trouble.
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Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Oct. 2025
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Those deals too may be in trouble.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
29 May 2026
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Jothan asked what the trouble was.
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Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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Even then, some saw signs of trouble.
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The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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So who was in the most trouble on your tribe?
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Feb. 2026
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Why go to all this trouble just to lose in court?
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Alison Somin,
Oc Register,
10 Apr. 2026
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If his progress stalls out, this team is in trouble.
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Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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That’s when the trouble starts.
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Michael Gargiulo,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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That’s where the trouble starts.
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Matthew Meehan,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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That was just the start of the team’s troubles that day.
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Chad Bishop,
AJC.com,
13 June 2026
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This helps keep you out of trouble with users and the law.
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Rhon Daguro,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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There’s briefly trouble with the Wifi.
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Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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But part of me is still having trouble with that.
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Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
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And then the world would be in real trouble.
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The Week Uk,
TheWeek,
13 June 2026
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The trouble is not that these metrics are wrong.
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Tony Julianelle,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
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No one in my life will blame me for getting him in trouble.
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Zack Sharf,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2026
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This simple step saves you loads of trouble down the road.
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Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Sep. 2025
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Come to think of it, our brunch waiter had trouble, too.
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R29 Team,
Refinery29,
19 Sep. 2025
- I don't mean to trouble you, but I have a question.
- I'm troubled by his strange behavior.
- The accusations troubled him deeply.
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What troubles me most is the speed.
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Letters To The Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 June 2026
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And the thing that troubled her most?
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Literary Hub,
19 Nov. 2025
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This night should trouble all of us.
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Michelle Begin,
Washington Post,
15 Apr. 2026
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So what is troubling the Mariners?
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David Troy Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
27 May 2026
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But the issues didn't trouble the crowd at all.
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Melonee Hurt,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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There’s something that troubles her about this.
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Literary Hub,
18 June 2026
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Your letter troubled me, friend.
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Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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But she’d long been troubled by what happened to the leftovers.
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Kathleen Toner,
CNN Money,
8 Aug. 2025
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Many investors have been troubled by stocks lately.
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Sarah Min,
CNBC,
20 Aug. 2025
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The midfield team has also made clear progress and may well trouble the top four a lot more this year.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
4 May 2026
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Mamoru Hosoda is troubled by a world where children die.
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Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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For the next fifty years, females of all ages both delighted and troubled him.
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Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
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From then on, for the next fifty years, females of all ages both delighted and troubled him.
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Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
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Only the opening still troubled her.
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Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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And, of course, the more wolves die in these harvests, the fewer might trouble livestock.
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Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
16 Feb. 2026
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Geekie’s stick troubled him in the second period, too.
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Fluto Shinzawa,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2026
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And those are two of the other issues that really trouble me.
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Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
22 Nov. 2025
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My message this week is about not letting our hearts be troubled, and Jesus is the way.
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Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
9 Jan. 2026
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But Bird was troubled in Bloomington from the start.
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Keith O'Brien,
Rolling Stone,
22 Feb. 2026
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Ward, now living in Denver, said she was troubled by how recent some events were.
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Gary Fields,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2026
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But the void between certainty and hope, where the foreman ruled, troubled him.
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Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Rather, what troubles him are the claims that the song’s success has been manufactured.
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Melinda Newman,
Billboard,
1 Oct. 2025
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Even some pro-nuclear groups are troubled by the emerging order.
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Avi Asher-Schapiro,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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Even some pro-nuclear groups are troubled by the emerging order.
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Avi Asher-Schapiro,
ProPublica,
20 Mar. 2026
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What troubled him even more was her attempt to justify the moment as harmless.
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Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
9 Dec. 2025
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Outlook isn’t the only thing that troubled the four astronauts.
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Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
3 Apr. 2026
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There is one enemy, however, that still troubles him.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2026
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