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Example sentences for "make trouble"

  • No, only that clerk that we laid off today, he 'lowed he was going to make trouble.

  • I said he could begin to make trouble just as soon as he pleased.

  • Bannon was beginning to see that Grady was more eager to make trouble than to uphold the cause of the men he was supposed to represent.

  • Everybody knows that agitator Jake Vodell is here to make trouble.

  • If only the people could be lined up and made to declare themselves openly," said John, "Jake Vodell would have about as much chance to make trouble among us as the German Crown Prince would have had among the French Blue Devils.

  • This agitator, Jake Vodell, is going to make trouble.

  • No doubt it's part of a girl's nature to make trouble of the kind.

  • Somebody's going to make trouble if he can find a speck on anything to-morrow," he said.

  • Well," he said, "if you are determined to make trouble I think you will get your wish.

  • A man can't be driven to death with work and then disturbed at all hours of the night, simply to give the fools in this town a chance to make trouble.

  • I heard of your uncle last year, when he tried to make trouble for a friend of mine in the spittoon game, an' you can bet your bottom dollar that the people here are not going to take much stock in what he says.

  • No, only that clerk that we laid off to-day, he 'lowed he was going to make trouble.

  • He may follow us and try to make trouble," returned Dave.

  • Not far from Star Ranch was the home of Link Merwell, and this young man, as before, tried to make trouble, but was exposed and humbled.

  • Every one of us had better keep his eye peeled, for they'll make trouble if they get half a chance.

  • It was all a bluff on the part of Noddy’s crowd to make trouble.

  • Oh, he said he wanted to keep under cover,--claimed they’d make trouble if they saw him.

  • This is a ticklish bit of work, Ned, and the least hostile act may make trouble.

  • But it was evident that Miss Leece's function, even in effigy, was to make trouble.

  • And it was at this party that Miriam seized her first opportunity to make trouble.

  • They just want to make trouble, and they take advantage of me at a time when I'm tied up because we're late with the show.

  • At something or other, a crowd of roughs felt themselves aggrieved, and under the guidance of a "gang-leader" began to make trouble.

  • Rotten of the men to make trouble now--don't you think?

  • A traitor, and he fighting for his country, while you'd be skulking here to make trouble for it!

  • Idle men in particular are bound to make trouble.

  • You have reason to feel flattered," he said, "because Clay's apt to make trouble when he is thwarted.

  • The boys down here are getting lax and I'm going to make trouble.

  • Perhaps she had threatened to make trouble--it was a slender motive, but worth bringing to the attention of Kennedy.

  • That was not because she wanted to make trouble, but because she had fallen in love.

  • I don't know their plans, but there's one thing you can depend on--they mean to make trouble.

  • If Allinson's likely to make trouble, I'll fix him quick.

  • She was glad at heart, that her enemy was leaving Marport, but could not help thinking that the bitter little women was going out of her way to make trouble, for herself.

  • When I make trouble," added Clarence musingly, "it will be for a pretty girl like Olivia.

  • Do you know I was 'most afraid you were going to make trouble for me?

  • Then, while I don't want to make trouble, I'll have to mention the thing to my committee.

  • Then," said Flora Schuyler, "if the Government ever encouraged homesteading in their country they'd make trouble.

  • I did not tell her, because she would have wondered what sort of a man you were to let her father load himself up with stuff like that, and I was not trying to make trouble.

  • You said you didn't want to make trouble.

  • I don't want to make trouble, but I am not going to run away from it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make trouble" 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:
    her heart; make believe; make bold; make conscience; make discoveries; make ends; make firm; make friends; make from; make good; make himself; make laws; make more; make plain; make room; make sense; make something; make speeches; make sport; make terms; make things; make this; make what; make you; nisi prius; this rule