Example collocations logo

Trouble in sentence

2557 examples of Trouble in a sentence

"We were doing fine," Venus told me, "until Brutus started to cause trouble."
Now, Brutus is Venus' neighbor and "cause trouble" is what happened the day after Venus' husband died, when Brutus just came and threw Venus and the kids out of the house, stole all their land, and robbed their market stall.
He said, "Seventy million rice farmers are having trouble growing rice."
Another way to look at this is to think of world GDP over the last 10,000 years, I've actually taken the trouble to plot this for you in a graph.
Mujahidh had schizoaffective disorder, he had trouble distinguishing between reality and fantasy.
We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion.
You know how much trouble the children have with variables, but by learning it this way, in a situated fashion, they never forget from this single trial what a variable is and how to use it.
And one of them was that so many of my friends that were teaching in city schools were having trouble with their students keeping up at grade level, in their reading and writing in particular.
And I have no trouble imagining that after spending weeks or even months as a second-grade citizen, living on the streets or in a horrible makeshift camp with a stupid, racist name like "The Jungle," most of us would be willing to do just about anything.
I closed my office door while I rocked and shushed and begged him to stop screaming so I wouldn't get in trouble.
If you have trouble remembering what you did when you were five, how will you remember what happened if you were alive a thousand years ago?
Dyslexia is caused by a phonological processing problem, meaning people affected by it have trouble not with seeing language but with manipulating it.
It's common to see one family member who has trouble spelling while another family member has severe difficulty decoding even one syllable words, like catch.
Because as we all know, our reefs are dying, and our oceans are in trouble.
Now, you may have trouble imagining an energy field, but we've all experienced one.
And the reason for that is the trouble with the step-by-step process, the marginal gains, is they can walk you gradually down a dead end.
Such a sassy reply may get subordinate Starfleet officers in trouble, but it is the only good answer to the question, "How fast are you moving?"
Much of Africa, in fact, much of the world, is going to be in trouble.
If you can smell a spritz of perfume in a small room, a dog would have no trouble smelling it in an enclosed stadium and distinguishing its ingredients, to boot.
If they're talking about the trouble they're having at work, don't tell them about how much you hate your job.
So the trouble with gravitational waves is that they're very weak; they're preposterously weak.
And he said the problem was quite the opposite, that every cleric that she had talked to had shut her down and said that her rage, her sense of injustice in the world, was just going to get her in trouble.
Fish are in trouble.
Post-9/11, [the] United States has had a lot of trouble to deal with, their own internal issues.
And even when hospitals are more abundant, typically the poor and the elderly have trouble getting care because they lack transportation that is convenient and affordable to them.
And people really took us up on this, so much so that if you got a flat tire on the AIDS ride, you had trouble fixing it, because there were so many people there asking you if you needed help.
Your brother, who's fallen in trouble, do you take care of him?
Now you will ask, "Would people really go through all this trouble?"
There's a story about these sailors that were transporting a stone across the ocean when they ran into some trouble and the stone actually fell in.
About 500 feet up, I reached a slab very similar to the one that had given me so much trouble on Half Dome, but this time was different.
BackNext