bother
verb (used with object)
to annoy; give trouble to; pester.
am bothering
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present progressiveof bother (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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In Memoriam Sirs: I am bothering you again, but when I come upon such a magnificent thing as I just have, I must inform you.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Don Bernardo, here I am bothering you again,” I said.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
I am bothering some tale of him I have had long by me into a sort of romance.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Why I am bothering about Snelling I fail to see, as we are not going there, and I certainly have enough troubles of my Own to think about.
From Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe
"But here I am bothering you with all of my troubles," she said, "when all the time gallant cavaliers wait without, anxious to pay their devoirs."
From Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison
