PROBLEM in a Sentence

Learn PROBLEM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

404 example sentences for PROBLEM, such as:

1. The problem of my conduct was solved.
2. You'll find him a knotty problem, though.
3. I'm not sure how to approach the problem.
4. It would appear that this was a major problem.
5. You can solve any problem if you apply yourself.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROBLEM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
problem
 n.  any question involving difficulty
Classic Sentence: (194 in 13 pages)
1  You'll find him a knotty problem, though.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  You see I have a lot of special knowledge which I apply to the problem, and which facilitates matters wonderfully.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  How to get Drebber to that house was the difficult problem which I had now to solve.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  I had almost decided upon this, when he solved the problem for me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
5  In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
6  At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
7  But the problem the animals could not at first solve was how to break up the stone into pieces of suitable size.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
8  The animals found the problem insoluble; in any case, they had little time for speculating on such things now.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  "That's the problem," said Mrs. Swithin.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
10  Six o'clock struck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently near to Mr. Utterson's dwelling, and still he was digging at the problem.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
11  The problem he was thus debating as he walked, was one of a class that is rarely solved.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
12  The problem of my conduct was solved.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
13  If we took no more notice of the one thing than the other, there'd be no problem.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  And that's the only way to solve the industrial problem: train the people to be able to live and live in handsomeness, without needing to spend.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
15  Whether this romantic martyr to superstition and the melancholy mummer he had conversed with under the full moon were one and the same person remained as yet a problem.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We should explore/pursue every avenue in the search for an answer to this problem.
17  It would appear that this was a major problem.
18  You can solve any problem if you apply yourself.
19  We would prefer a more orthodox approach/solution to the problem.
20  We must approach the problem from a different standpoint.
21  The government is proclaiming a carrot-and-stick approach to the problem.
22  I'm not sure how to approach the problem.
23  Since our research so far has not produced any answers to this problem, we need to adopt a different approach to it.
24  The crowd continued to argue heatedly about the best way to tackle the problem.
25  We must solve this problem by argument not by fighting.
26  What he has tried to expound in this article bears on a key problem in our economic reform.
27  The problem is beginning to assume massive proportions.
28  The problem is beginning to assume mammoth proportions.
29  The problem with all these calculations is they assume a homogenous chemical mantle.
30  But local attorney Bill Risner raises a potential problem for Scott on the governance side of the conflict equation.