Example Sentences

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“The strategy,” Crispe said, “boils down to ‘We just have to be a bit better than Harvard and Columbia and then nobody will bother us.’”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

I don't think it will bother Postecoglou, though.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2024

“Nobody will bother you,” the unidentified officer said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2023

“That play bothered me then, it bothers me now,” he said in 1986, “and it will bother me until the day I die.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2022

People go there so no one will bother them.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows