Sentence examples for Troubling from inspiring English sources
"troubling" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when something is causing worry or concern. For example: "It was troubling to hear that the economy has been affected by the pandemic."
verb
Present participle of trouble
For a democrat, this is all profoundly troubling.
And the picture that is emerging is troubling.
For the man who "turned the internet on", this threat is troubling.
Troubling for Labour, tricky for some Tories and a potential disaster for many Lib Dems: there is something for every English MP to dislike in the draft constituency boundary changes.
Plus there may be other issues you have to pick up on that they don't mention, which may be more important than the symptoms troubling them.
But the fact that Al-Jazeera has reported in such depth the other side of this conflict is troubling to the authorities.
"The incident is deeply troubling and causes us great concern as it comes just after the recent deaths of Mexican nationals Antonio Zambrano Montes and Ruben García Villalpando," the Mexican foreign ministry said in a statement.
But Ryan did better on the Benghazi attack, saying Obama's delay in acknowledging it was a terrorist attack rather than a protest against a YouTube video is troubling.
"It is clearly troubling that these documents suggest the FBI interprets its national security mandate as protecting private industry from political criticism," he said.
But she says his previous statements on women's reproductive rights are troubling.
Among its many other cultural and economic assets, Google is accumulating a rather comprehensive record of what is troubling us, from asking the search engine to diagnose our disease symptoms to whether we will ever find true love.
