BOTHER in a Sentence

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For BOTHER, below is one of 137 sentences:
However, it doesn't seem to bother the Yankees whether folks are guilty or not, so long as they can hang somebody.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOTHER
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bother
 v.  annoy; trouble; make agitated or nervous; fluster
Classic Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1  And he hasn't any parents to bother me and he lives in Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  There were too many nice officers in the world for her to bother about what old women said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  Don't bother about talking, dear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  She said she lived in a log cabin when she first came to Atlanta, when it was Marthasville, and it wouldn't bother her none to do it again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  "Now, Mrs. Wilkes, don't you bother about your husband," said the one-eyed man soothingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  "You know that wouldn't bother Dimity," said Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  Yet, none of these things seemed to bother him any more than the leg he had left in Virginia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  Miss Scarlett, I sure hate to bother you with more trouble when you've had your share but I've got to tell you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  I'll bother about it after I've married him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  However, it doesn't seem to bother the Yankees whether folks are guilty or not, so long as they can hang somebody.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  Her need of money was too pressing, too desperate, for her to bother about his ultimate fate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  When a man got as old as Frank Kennedy he ought to have learned not to bother about things that didn't matter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  But, when she intimated this delicately to Frank, the day after they married, he smiled and told her not to bother her sweet pretty little head about business matters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Don't you bother your pretty head about it, Sugar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  Well, don't bother about what folks say.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  Do the phrases that bother me qualify as variant usages, or are they simply mistakes?
17  "Oh, don't bother ME," said the Duchess; "I could not abide figures!"
18  Why bother going to see a doctor for such a trifling, everyday cold?
19  The only stipulation is that they can't have internet and bother me.
20  This test will winnow out the students who study from those who don't bother.
21  His egocentric foibles didn't bother me much, though we were as different as daylight and dark.
22  It's not worth bothering with an umbrella-the car's just outside.
23  I'm sure he'll tell us what's bothering him in the fullness of time.
24  Even though Tony denied that anything was wrong, Tina trusted her intuition that something was bothering him.
25  She usually goes out in disguise to avoid being bothered by the public.
26  He never got too bothered about the mess.
27  As often as not when I make the effort to visit her, I wonder why I've even bothered.
28  He never even bothered to acknowledge her presence.
29  I think she felt snubbed because Anthony hadn't bothered to introduce himself.
30  It upset him that nobody had bothered to tell him about it.