Sentence examples for troubles a from inspiring English sources

Herodotus himself was contemptuously hostile, regarding the revolt as the "beginning of troubles"—a phrase with a Homeric nuance between Greeks and Persians.

"It troubles a number of us here.

"She knows the troubles a woman has to face.

"Troubles," a novel set in Ireland in 1919, won 38 percent of the votes.

Try: "Sorry to hear you're having troubles" — a no-fault expression if ever there was one.

The striker is booked for his troubles, a wee bit harshly, I'm saying.

After all that, labeling an animal with image troubles a New Yorkie doesn't sound so absurd.

He has had his troubles; a little misbehaving, a bit of a drinking problem.

At the time, Mr. Bloomberg called the troubles "a royal screw-up" by the city's Board of Elections.

This was not unusual: during some tax troubles a few years back, the owner was often hard to track down.

They have been held on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking troubles" — a classic authoritarian premise for crushing free speech.