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How to use the word troublesome in a Sentence?

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I wouldn’t call it a true full alliance in the real meaning of that word, but we are seeing them moving closer together, and that’s troublesome, and then … Iran is the third. So those three countries together are going to be problematic for many years to come I think, especially Russia and China because of their capability.

– Mark Milley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is appalling. It is deplorable. It is heinous, it is violent. It is troublesome on every level.

– Attorney Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm aware of him being tardy but he's been tardy on everything his entire life, i think it's troublesome to everybody, but everyone has learned how to produce a film to deal with it.

– Christian Carino

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Biden’s repeated disregard of the individual liberties of Texans is not only disrespectful to the U.S. Constitution, it is also troublesome that any president thinks they can act above the law while hardworking Americans standby, president Biden cannot continue governing through executive edicts. Now is the time to strike down his administration’s air-travel mask mandate.

– Texas Public Policy Foundation

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Biden's repeated disregard of the individual liberties of Texans is not only disrespectful to the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Constitution, it is also troublesome that any president thinks they can act above the law while hardworking Americans standby, president Biden can not continue governing through executive edicts. Now is the time to strike down President Biden administration's air-travel mask mandate.

– Ken Paxton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Biden’s repeated disregard of the individual liberties of Texans is not only disrespectful to the U.S. Constitution, it is also troublesome that any president thinks they can act above the law while hardworking Americans standby, president Biden cannot continue governing through executive edicts. Now is the time to strike down his administration’s air-travel mask mandate. I’m proud to stand alongside my friend Congresswoman Van Duyne and her counsel at TPPF to protect Texans’ liberty and the rule of law.

– Ken Paxton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They’ve got populations that are not as well immunized, whether that is from vaccine or infection, as we have, we still have a lot more immunity from natural infection than most European countries, and we’re rolling out the booster. That is why we will have less of a troublesome winter than most.

– Paul Hunter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What’s really troublesome and almost frightening to know is that we have a commander in chief who does not see the imperative of bringing the Americans home, that’s a longstanding ethos, not just of the military, but of America.

– Yet Boykin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We don't want to let happen in the United States what is happening currently in the UK, where Surgeon General Vivek Murthy have a troublesome variant essentially taking over as the dominant variant, which has made it a very difficult situation in the UK.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The thing that’s troublesome now that we really need to keep our eye on are these variants, the one that is of greater concern and that really could be problematic is the mutant that is now dominant in South Africa.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In these troublesome times, it is our responsibility to offer this service to everyone, most importantly, we want to keep the breweries and bar community alive.

– Isamu Yoneda

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Holiday gatherings at work are the most troublesome, people bring in all these fatty, calorie-heavy foods, lots of desserts, and when you're looking at a buffet of 20 different things and there's only one plate of fruit, what are you supposed to do ?

– Karen Sanderson

Found on CNN
6 years ago

A case like this, leaving a victim as brutally beaten as she was is extremely troublesome.

– Elisa Anders

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A case like this leaving a victim as brutally beaten as she was is extremely troublesome.

– Elisa Anders

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

So far obviously things are troublesome, but the stock market does no tell the full story of financial stability.

– Margrethe Vestager

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Nobody has done a proper corruption story since ... Has bribery come to an end in Turkey? Obviously not, but journalists don't believe they can win a court case, so they say, 'I'll spare myself the trouble and refrain from writing such stories', which is extremely troublesome in terms of freedom of speech and press.

– Baris Ince

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

– Laurence Sterne

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

– John Dewey

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

– George Eliot, Middlemarch

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

– George Washington

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

– Isaac Asimov

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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