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Example sentences for "fuss about"

  • But even that would be dependent on his health, for now they would begin to fuss about him.

  • How has he shown it, that you make such a fuss about it?

  • So they prepared a piece of bread like that and threw it to Zhutchka, that shaggy dog there’s been such a fuss about.

  • Only when accompanying his son out on to the steps, the old man began to fuss about.

  • Why are you in such a fuss about it, Phil?

  • I am in such a fuss about what I can make to send to mamma for her birthday.

  • You were in such a fuss about it two or three days ago.

  • It was not, after all, a thing to make a fuss about; and what could Irwine do for him that he could not do for himself?

  • Why, yes, sir; but that's nothing to make a fuss about.

  • Then why should you make such a fuss about it?

  • After the formal salutation, which she always insisted upon, the venerable lady began to fuss about a little, and pretend to be at a loss with things.

  • I will make no fuss about such a trifle,” he answered, with a pleasant smile; “of course you will do what is honourable.

  • However, he wasn't to make a fuss about her; that was settled.

  • Charlotte continued: "I can see nothing to make such a fuss about.

  • You needn't make a fuss about me," said Mrs. Challis to her husband, just departing for the Acropolis Club.

  • He has been used to doing things in a big way, and he feels mean, if he makes a fuss about bills.

  • I have purchased enough for you to make a fuss about.

  • He can't make a fuss about that," said Mrs. Ruck.

  • It seems hardly worth while to make a fuss about so small a sum.

  • I never saw any one make such a fuss about so insignificant a detail as a proposal of marriage.

  • It's nice of you not to make a fuss about it.

  • He has been so knocked about himself, and so close to death's door more than once, that he looks upon this as a fuss about nothing.

  • Fox, with the truly British face of one who is understood at last, but makes no fuss about it, gave up his horse at the lych-gate, and made off where he was beckoned for.

  • And I have enough understanding to realize that if you want to make a row you must absolutely have something definite to make a fuss about, otherwise it won't work.

  • We're not going to do anything special, so what is there to make such a fuss about?

  • Either you were good friends and no fuss about it, or nothing.

  • Arabella has never forgiven her sister for running away with her lover; and Monica has never forgiven her sister for making such a fuss about it.

  • Nobody had cared to make a fuss about it, but enough of ancestral right remained to justify me in getting over.

  • But he says that they had no call to do it; for men of discretion would let them go, and make no fuss about them.

  • I have but one request to make: When all is over, then Let there be no fuss about me, bury me with my men.

  • Let there be no fuss about me, bury me with my men.

  • Puttin' up with whatevah happens to you, without makin' a fuss about it.

  • It's putting up with whatever happens to you, without making a fuss about it.

  • I'm wild to see what that picture looks like that Molly made such a fuss about, and it will give me some amusement for the afternoon.

  • But before the words could slip out she remembered the definition, "Putting up with anything that happens to you without making a fuss about it.

  • Well, it is no concern of mine, so long as nobody is killed, which everybody makes such a fuss about.

  • Such a man steal that paltry skirt that her mother made such a fuss about!

  • If there is a fuss about it, lay the blame on me.

  • In my time we had fifty men as good, and made no fuss about them.

  • Papa was always disposed to find his own ailments very important, and thought it natural to make a fuss about them.

  • How would you like to have people looking down upon you, laughing at you behind your back, perhaps mocking you before your face, and all your little faults made a fuss about, and nobody to be at ease with.

  • Fanchon enjoyed and made such a fuss about?

  • Yes, you do make a fuss about her at times," said Josephine.

  • Oh dear--I wish there was not such a fuss about breaking-up day; you are all in such ludicrous spirits!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fuss 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:
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