Example Sentences
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“If she’d have gone to Lowe’s or Home Depot, it wouldn’t bother me. But you’re opening a school? That bothered me.”
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
She’s not bothered, though, since what the experience did do was “give me the confidence to produce this album for myself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Through more than four years of the Russian invasion, 27-year-old Oleksiy Virskovsky largely hasn't bothered going to the underground shelter in the building next door -- despite almost nightly missile and drone attacks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
She fell in love with the city after discovering she could go shopping without being bothered, saying that she was "physically different since" moving there.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
It’s the Mona Lisa phenomenon only because we’ve bothered to notice it in the Mona Lisa.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
