Example Sentences

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None of that seems to have bothered Trump.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

If Mr. Besson couldn’t make a “Dracula” superior to Mr. Coppola’s, he shouldn’t have bothered to try.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Why would they even have bothered to do it at all?

From Salon • May 14, 2025

Aaron Robison, 62, has been staying at one of the city’s warming centers and said the cold wouldn’t have bothered him when he was younger.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2024

“I mean, ah, I don’t see that you have bothered to entrench,” Fremande went on.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara