Bother in a sentence as a noun

She would yell at me when I wrote the letters wrong, it really seemed to bother her.

They don't even bother to launder that dirty money.

I often find that I don't bother to write up a response to something because I know won't get a lot of attention.

Besides the fact that it does not say much for how you produce your content it also shows that you don't even bother to do your own fact checking.

Bother in a sentence as a verb

Should I not bother?-When walking leaving my office and entering the hallway, how close should a person be entering the hallway from the opposite direction be before I wave or say hello.

Anecdote time:Back around 1996-8, Apple went through a spot of bother with the Powerbook range -- during the Amelio years, the number of models proliferated and the build quality fell through the floor.

It does everything that we routinely see listed on this very site as Best Practices:- Respond to customer feedback in a friendly and highly transparent manner.- Don't sugarcoat things that "everyone knows but no one admits"; they could have avoided showing the graphic artist photoshopping the burger, but everyone knows that they use photoshop, so why bother?

Bother definitions

noun

an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother"

See also: fuss trouble hassle

noun

something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"

See also: annoyance botheration pain infliction

verb

take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't bother, please"

See also: trouble

verb

cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

verb

to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..."

See also: trouble inconvenience disoblige discommode incommode

verb

intrude or enter uninvited; "Don't bother the professor while she is grading term papers"

verb

make nervous or agitated; "The mere thought of her bothered him and made his heart beat faster"

verb

make confused or perplexed or puzzled