Example Sentences

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Bothering to read the Sports section in today’s hyper-informed media environment rarely has a purpose, as scores, highlights and analyses come to our screens mere nanoseconds after the fact.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2020

Bothering to detail millennial attitudes, rather than just indulging the Gen X viewpoint, showed that 21 Jump Street had an uncommon grasp of its demographics.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2017

Bothering everyone by constantly calling to find out what was going on with Cary, for one thing.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2015

Bothering no one, they might have continued to do so had not U. S. relief agents found it out last month.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Bothering here at this time of night, when Bill's been a-bed this hour and a half, and time you was the same."

From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir