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Example sentences for "bother about"

  • There was a chap here last year who gave himself only a prick, and he didn't bother about it, and he got septicaemia.

  • If you find it long you needn't bother about me, you know.

  • He knew he was a fool to bother about her; she was not the sort of woman who would ever care two straws for him, and she must look upon his deformity with distaste.

  • Earl knew the channel like a book, and said there was nothing to bother about in the way of rocks as long as he could see.

  • The third riffle was nothing to bother about; nor did Schofield's Rapids, two miles below, offer any difficulties.

  • After that there was nothing much to bother about.

  • I don't think he'd bother about it in the ordinary way, but if he is actually passing your door, I think he might glance in.

  • Seeing his hesitation, Antony said: "I ought to have warned you that nothing that you say will be taken down by the reporters, so you needn't bother about a split infinitive or two.

  • I'm at the other end of the house; he's hardly likely to bother about me a second time.

  • I think I like poetry when it's got a story in it, and the rhymes are not too far away from one another, and the lines jog along without your having to bother about them,' remarked Babs.

  • Finny always says we are to do things for ourselves as much as we can, and that the way to help other people most is to see that they don't have to bother about us.

  • These Londoners have had so much royalty in their midst lately that they won't trouble to bother about me.

  • After all, it begins to look like we needn't bother about how we're going to sleep to-night, standing or sitting!

  • Don't bother about Jimmy, please," he told them.

  • Only one thing to bother about now, eh, Ned?

  • Then he added philosophically, "And it's just as well not to bother about it.

  • Suppose you found you hadn't anything at all--found it out suddenly, when all along you had been thinking you'd never have to bother about money?

  • Harold, darling, don't bother about moths or butterflies to-night.

  • If I get married I can no longer be expected to bother about my relations.

  • No, I won't bother about my hands," John put in hastily to forestall Beatrice's next suggestion.

  • I'm glad to get back; I'm always glad to get back now, though I didn't bother about it much when we camped in the bush before.

  • You have no title to the ground and I understand have been warned off, but we won't bother about that.

  • Jim had been somewhat surprised when Jake secured the contract and imagined this was because it was not large enough for the others to bother about.

  • They didn't bother about going on land, but rested themselves by lying and rocking on the water.

  • Oh, go to sleep, and don't bother about me!

  • Instantly the white one swam across the sound with him; but as luck would have it the squirrels had so much fun chasing each other from tree to tree, that they didn't bother about listening to the boy.

  • Baroudi would probably never think of her as Englishmen thought of her, would never "bother about" her age.

  • And he doesn't seem to bother about them.

  • He uttered the right banality: "How good of you to bother about me!

  • No, don't bother about a post-office in your camp.

  • He has probably ceased to bother about it by this time--and I have not commenced yet.

  • He only said, in his patient way, that it was gone, and he wouldn't bother about trying to find out where it went to, though it was his opinion it went to Gibraltar.

  • Either it's a hoax, and we needn't bother about it; or the threat is genuine, and we have the time to stop the robbery.

  • He saw Miss Brown and did not bother about me, but Mrs. Jefferson told me why he wanted the boat, and I went to Don Erminio's.

  • It is the greatest mistake in the world to bother about to-morrow's maccheroni.

  • Why should I bother about to-morrow's maccheroni?

  • He, Artois, was not in the mood just then to bother about a feather.

  • Oh, you needn't bother about that," Erik rejoined eagerly.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bother about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arms superimposed; bear record; bother about; but found; doing what; exercise their; first battle; free passage; general favorite; humble opinion; jest then; little book; little darling; made holy; many persons; only fair; pine trees; political affairs; reached from; should really; single thread; the days