How To Use Bothered In A Sentence

It bothered me a little that I didn't have a pickup, and I couldn't see doing much off road driving with my Mustang fastback.
Are you bothered by nagging aches and pains? The Sun
He doesn't seem too bothered about the things that are written about him in the papers.
He is an ordinary bloke who is not too bothered about his clothes.
Now, whenever I go out on the porch I remember how rusty and pitted the railings used to look and how it bothered me, and the several hours I spent sandpapering it smooth, then the three coats of brown Rustoleum I applied, and now I'm watching it get whiter and cleaner with every new layer of paint I apply. A Productive Day

I am "unbothered" by the "lack of judgment" that you refer to because I don't see it as a lack of judgment. Obama Issues New Orders On Afghanistan
In theory, we were going to walk up the thousand steps, but neither of us could be bothered.
There was nothing that bothered him more than seeing his friends in bad moods, for he knew what it felt like to be in a slump.
In the meantime, the miserable gits who can't be bothered with the print version will have to do without.
Would they be bothered because the stadium is still under construction?
What is particularly galling is that the authors never bothered to contact me or my department head or dean to inquire about this matter.
Well, she's the version of Samantha's sister (can't for the life of me remember the name, and I can't be bothered getting up to walk to my room and taking a squiz at the book).
I believe that all our people and all of those who really love sports are bothered very much when there is some kind of indiscipline, when an incident takes place. INTERVIEW ON SPORTS
Who on earth can be bothered writing political commentaries?
And a general weariness in having the same conversation about genre versus the mainstream that crops up whenever a young'un who hasn't bothered to read anything published on the internet over the last decade gets the bright idea to write in haphazard fashion about a topic that's like the same piece of gum masticated for a month. [Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen
Once upon a time, in the heyday of unitards and medicine balls, intercollegiate games were private affairs, held in basement gyms or on remote lawns, and if anyone bothered to go and watch, it was an athlete's dad or girlfriend or roommate.
It isn't fair that you're only a secretary at Hoggatt's because no-one bothered to educate you for anything else.
At one, there was a load of polystyrene boxes outside with the remains of takeaway meals, dumped by people who couldn't be bothered to finish their food.
The invisible components of civil society, whose extent is largely unknown, consist of those who prefer a personal rather than a ready-made set of values, people who never speak up, and people who admittedly do not want to be bothered.
It was the pursuit of total ingratiation with the media and it sort of bothered me a bit.
Are you bothered by nagging aches and pains? The Sun
It certainly bothered that woman on the plane. Times, Sunday Times
Hardly anyone has bothered to reply.
Some of the characters tat were chosen to be developed for this title bothered me to an extent of never gaining the urge to even consider selecting their picture on the roster screen. Undefined
Then again, if you had this much ammunition, you probably wouldn't be too bothered about dressing up.
As often as not when I make the effort to visit her, I wonder why I've even bothered.
In the referendum people who usually cannot be bothered decided that they could be bothered. Times, Sunday Times
No wonder only one in three voters bothered to vote in last month's local elections.
What would be the point of Blackburn fans rejoicing in the victory over the ‘old enemy’ if many can't be bothered to cheer the side on to a potential semi-final clash at the Millennium Stadium?
In the nineteen-twenties, fewer than a third of the firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange even bothered to publish quarterly reports.
As it grows in the river from an egg, it's bothered by brown trout, preyed on by goosanders (ducks with serrated bills) and cormorants as well as mergansers (another type of salmon-persecuting duck).
What broke the ice, he found, were small workshops where sharecroppers and domestics talked about practical issues that bothered them, brainstormed about what to do, and took steps to do it.
The reason that I bothered with the argument of vowelless [mz] being pronounceable is simply that I do, in fluent speech, usually produce the vowelless [mz], and therefore wanted to explain the more objectionable position, figuring the vowelled pronunciation of Ms. could defend itself. “Ms.”-ing the point « Motivated Grammar
At first, it seemed reasonable; everyone had fairly equal responsibilities, which I noted she never bothered with herself.
Some of the older members of the public did not seem too bothered about it.
On the other hand, a patch of open land can also become a problem and an eyesore, taken over by the local yobs as their hang-out or used as a dumping ground by people who can't be bothered to dispose of their rubbish properly.
Zztop: If you call being bothered by bigotry "bitchiness" I'll take that as a compliment. Jamie Johnson: The Rising Cachet of Declining Wasps: Jamie Johnson
Oddly enough, though the wounds haven't bothered him in years, Jonnie is abruptly aware that his shirt collar is chafing at the rough scar tissue left over from that old attack.
He doesn't seem too bothered about the things that are written about him in the papers.
Who could be bothered to do their maths homework after that? Times, Sunday Times
I noticed that no ID supporter has bothered to correct your misunderstanding of phylogenies. A Disclaimer for Behe?
The coming and going stopped, but nobody bothered to stop talking, because the sound would be dubbed in later.
Is nobody bothered about noise any more? Times, Sunday Times
I'm so bitter and bitchy, I can't even be bothered to pun on that last sentence.
The third takeaway is really just a confirmation of something that has longed bothered me, which is that every time a large company passes a new cost on to a customer, I wonder what internal inefficiencies they're letting slide at the same time. AT&T Sells You A Service They Don't Offer, Denies It, Bills You Anyway - The Consumerist
But what is striking now is that neither side seems bothered about disguising those differences.
It was snowing so much today but i really wasnt bothered. snowed a few months a go and i basically spent the whole day outside which i do everytime it snows as well as this, when i am stressed i always have a bath. i dont know why i just always do, it helps unstress me. but now it really does not help and im as stressed as i was before i got in. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
No one bothered to refer to the significantly expanded, easily accessible pocket book edition.
I was so tired and grouchy I just couldn't be bothered.
We both got dragged of to the headmistress, but I swear from that day on she never bothered me again and nor did anyone else.
That she was mentally ill should have set into motion a whole series of actions and reactions on the part of hospital and social services professionals–none of whom could be bothered to reach out to this woman and help her–a clear application of the term depraved indifference if I’ve ever heard it. Three good comments on the Rowland case
He married an Eyetie nurse and never bothered to come home. The Old Man's Tale
Allows you to keep dressing in a somewhat grungey, not bothered way. Times, Sunday Times
But I was more bothered about the 70 taxi fare! The Sun
Not having bothered to use the door, the undead cadavers had simply punched a hole through the wall as if it had been thin wooden boarding.
This one is my gift to all the lazy people who happen upon my blog and cant be bothered to plough any further to discover the bounteous and wondrous delights contained herein.
To be honest I can't even be bothered rereading the article to refresh my memory about what I had to say.
You haven't bothered to get in any soft drinks. Times, Sunday Times
I couldn't possibly reveal the name of the sole person I haven't bothered to shop for yet, but it begins with L and has fewer than 5 letters.
I'm less bothered about my bus shelter now, though I would obviously prefer there to be a stop there so it would be more convenient to get a bus.
I can't be bothered with putting a mortgage on my house just to buy a frilly ascot!
None of them bothered to change out of their street clothes, expecting a short skirmish only.
It has a cherry stone with more faces carved on it than anyone else has ever bothered to manage.
As shoppers stopped to purchase bread from an automat in a suburban Frankfurt Aldi one recent afternoon, many said they weren't terribly bothered by the distinction. Fresh Test: Grocery Store Automats Get a Rise Out of German Bakers
Is she bothered by police harassment as well as surveillance? Times, Sunday Times
The look on his face bothered me; it was an unsmiling, impassive expression with furrowed eyebrows.
At my old job, there were some higher-ups who I don't think even bothered to learn my name until I'd been there a couple of months.
The outdoor facilities are often called the ‘weathering areas’; these areas should be covered with wire or netting or roofed, so that the Red Tailed Hawk is not bothered by other animals.
He was a stocky, dark, hard-countenanced man who had never bothered to have removed the scar that seamed his brow.
In early 1997, I applied to sit an exam to become a copyboy, a now extinct species of dogsbodies who once did everything journos couldn't be bothered doing.
Only fifty or so students ever bothered to graduate.
Unfortunately most of us bank with the four main banks and we just can't be bothered to switch.
As often as not when I make the effort to visit her, I wonder why I've even bothered.
All of the sudden, this alien bothered me much more than any creepy creature from a sci-fi movie.
At one point Brendan's sled tipped over and he fell into the snow and no one bothered to help him up.
But she had too many crucial driving challenges before her now to evaluate why the word bothered her. Under a Maui Moon
The moment he arrived at the tumbledown village on the edge of the cane fields he wished he hadn't bothered. YELLOW BIRD
The few city centre shopkeepers that had bothered to open waited forlornly for customers.
Still, even for the eternally optimistic Mullin, having a fourth straight season wrecked by injury has bothered him.
These are the days when I can't be bothered talking about the hassles, but am happier just blurting them out ‘silently’ on here.
I wouldn't have bothered you, but all the blacksmiths and arrow fletchers said they were busy, I did ask them first.
What is really a shame is that his good name has been sullied by people who have not bothered to read what he wrote.
And as far as Avatar: saw it in 3-D, was wowed by the special effects, thought the movie itself story, acting, directing, etc. was pretty average, wasn’t too bothered by the so-called pantheistic elements in it – it was just science fiction to me. My Kindle Got Run Over by a Car at Ray Fowler .org
Floating on the top is a pear crisp, so sweet and delectable you might wonder why anyone ever bothered making chips from potatoes.
The free citizens of Hodge Hill bettered that: only 37 per cent bothered to vote.
It could have been the chunks of ice that would dislodge from the nose of the plane and come careening back toward the propellers and explode when they hit the blades, or it could have been the Nor'Easter that no one bothered to tell the pilot was pounding the eastern seaboard. Intercession
He had not bothered to look for signs of intrusion, since it was well known that devils, being bodiless, do not leave footprints. LION IN THE VALLEY
Emmott claims to be unbothered by the uncertainty.
After all, it had worked on DCs Bowmore and Singh, who hadn't even bothered to reinterview him. AFTERMATH
Once you're aware of this meshuga (crazy) food on your plate, you may wonder why no one bothered to tell you that there are flounder parts (or RoundUp) in your Chopped Salad? Maria Rodale: The First Ever National Heirloom Exposition, Santa Rosa, California
I loved it as it always bothered me that Penelope seemed so uncomplaining and patient in the face of her husbands extended absence and persistant infidelity. Maggie O'Farrell - An interview with author
The hacker clan that discovered a vulnerability in telnet on BSD and created an exploit to demonstrate the extent of the bug are all hottenbothered because Bugtraq, a venerable security-alert mailinglist posted the exploit, despite a header that forbade such action. Boing Boing: July 29, 2001 - August 4, 2001 Archives
If the Formula One circus is so bothered about avoiding accidents, why not run the entire race behind the safety car?
You become dull, complacent, and unawake, and just hang out in your comfort zone and won't be bothered. C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala
He never even bothered to acknowledge her presence.
He scoffed at college, saying that he'd made a lot of money and he hadn't even bothered to finish college.
He is the biggest male pop star on the planet, yet oddly bothered about piddly little things. Times, Sunday Times
As it turns out he didni walk it from the the scheme into the city after all; he was going to but eventually he couldni be bothered, he took a taxi.
The one thing that bothered me throughout both films - more of a distraction than anything else - was the framing.
Are you bothered by nagging aches and pains? The Sun
Eventually, the guy who used to mend the fence and keep things neat doesn't anymore, and some corporation discovers a vein of a minable resource on the land under the unicorn, and since no one's bothered to come look at the unicorn in a long while, they airlift him to a shabby zoo somewhere in Europe looking to increase its ailing reputation. Pornography Is A Washed-Up Unicorn
Only a hard core of biotech businesses, researchers and their political allies are bothered.
Also, for a couple of years my parents have been bothered by a whining noise in the house. Times, Sunday Times
Children are left uninterrupted, undistracted, unbothered; their distinctness and separateness are respected.
No one bothered to investigate the true circumstances of her death.
He was simply not concerned with any of those internal qualms about quality that bothered most of the people I worked with. Times, Sunday Times
Being called a scaredy cat, among other names, never bothered me. Weapons of massdistraction › A Sad Day On The West Side
In other words, we can't be bothered to speak to you or redeliver your parcel. Times, Sunday Times
Unless I am establishing an alibi or there are ghostly apparitions hovering next to me, I'm not too bothered at seeing pictures of myself somewhere, but of course I'm too polite to say anything.
That’s what bothered me, really: the commenters seem to feel that bullying someone offstage is “speech” and not “force”, simply because they were shouting at the time. Surely Lucy Won’t Yank the Football Away This Time!
At least on the streets there was no pretend law being bothered with in a pretend way, just people puffing, victimising only themselves.
With hindsight, they didn't seem bothered about the suggestion of a relationship, though the timing was awkward.
As it grows in the river from an egg, it's bothered by brown trout, preyed on by goosanders (ducks with serrated bills) and cormorants as well as mergansers (another type of salmon-persecuting duck).
What it does require is a willingness to use derivatives or maintain a short interest, and these, of course, are verboten, because so many people can't be bothered to understand such things.
Many governmental organisations are headless because they have not bothered to recommend the right candidates.
The cell had a single wooden cot which the bandits hadn't bothered to put a mattress on, and the floor was covered in straw.
Meanwhile, just as head-scratchingly, the same media that typically treat female politicians like little girls playing dress-up and subject politicians of color to racist screeds and reflexive dismissal were getting all hot and bothered imagining a Clinton-Obama race for the Oval Office ... and telling America that this wasn't only possible, it was the most probable outcome. Jennifer L. Pozner: Super Tuesday Media Musings, Part I: Why Media Forced Edwards Out of the Race
But the Scottish champion didn't seem bothered by such trifling details, opening up an early five-point lead to close out the opening set in double quick time.
Producers of inedible food aren't that bothered anyway and won't notice that appreciation is no more than polite. Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
I may be in the minority of web users but if they can't be bothered to provide a navigable site, I can't be bothered to visit their cinema.
The police seem incapable of stopping that, so why would they be bothered about a millionaire footballer? The Sun
Do they know how it feels to be gawked at, bothered, threatened, followed, terrified? Giulia Rozzi: A Cure For Cat-Calling?
I used to inspect homes in a previous career and it never bothered me except for the ones where the opening is a trap door and all grandma would have to do is kick it down and slide the fridge over it and you would be trapped. Some things that creep me the fuck out
She was the only person who replied to the invitation none of the others bothered.
An officer took a statement from me[sentence dictionary], but no one's bothered to follow it up.
This whole area has been bothered by a mysterious hunt-and-peck thief for several months. PASSION AND ILLUSION
Has anyone bothered to ask the population at large how safe they feel in the current police presence?
One would think the author never bothered to read Google's help section!
As often as not when I make the effort to visit her, I wonder why I've even bothered.
Parker is a bit like Chauncey Gardner in “Being There,” the right person at the right time who was able to distill the unspoken desire of the anglophonic wine-consuming Volk, looking for “objective” measures of quality without wishing to be bothered by the messy and somewhat subjectivist notion of terroir. Wine Person of the Decade - nominations open! | Dr Vino's wine blog
Could it be that Leftists are not bothered by pornography but do like to deplore violence?
How about if I dress up as a mean warden from a Southern prison, would that get you all hot and bothered little guy? Think Progress » First health care, now jobs: Right wing advocates discriminating against Obama voters.
Bill was comfortable expressing emotion, but he was also bothered by Jane's persistence in maintaining the above-mentioned regressive behaviors.
During the argument in the case last October, some justices seemed bothered by the retroactive extension but they also were concerned about their standing to overturn it.
The support companies were removed from the wadies round Hill 230, as it was plain that the Turks had these most accurately registered, and moved up under shelter of the Mansura cliffs, where they were free from direct observation though bothered by 5. 9s neatly dropped just over the edge. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
But black cat is not interested in compliments today, she does not want to be bothered. ON CATS
No one has bothered to assess its value. Times, Sunday Times
Essays significantly entitled “That to philosophize is to learn to die,” he reports that being bothered by attacks of dread of dying, he at first tried to follow DEATH AND IMMORTALITY
Her red lipstick was smudged and she hadn't bothered to pin up her hair properly at the sides.
Well, if you missed the presentation because you couldn't be bothered to turn up on time, that's your hard luck!
He needn't have bothered, as I couldn't follow his jargoned explanation of nano-technology anyway, but I can tell you this much: The Flying Wi-Fi is about the size of a small moth, it can stealthily hover or remain stationary almost silently in any location, and it's equipped with an ultra-sensitive wi-fi camera (with an amazing wide-angle lens) and microphone. "The Flying Wi-Fi": Working Out the Bugs
I've had this random toothache for about 3 weeks that comes and goes andnever really bothered me unless I was eating something really hot or cold. Lily-white Diary Entry
Sadly, many pay their subs and consider their contribution to society fulfilled, or on some perceived slight or disagreement, take their bat home, truly most can't be bothered.
The next morning we awoke to overcast skies and a light snowfall, but I was too excited about the challenge of the day to be bothered by the weather, as we geared up with our ski suits, gaiters, rucksacks and the all important snowshoes.
She huffed in a slight sulk, she knew he was bothered by Karen's antics from earlier in the day, but he seemed to be cool about it.
We do detect some sort of orchestrated opposition by incomers to the area, but locals don't seem to be bothered.
A slow-moving film with a weak plot, it trudges its way to a disappointing finish and leaves you wondering why you bothered.
We've rather over judged the dress code - and appear to be the only ones to have bothered to get togged up at all.
The moment he arrived at the tumbledown village on the edge of the cane fields he wished he hadn't bothered. YELLOW BIRD
Most of us have been too caught up in the everyday minutiae to be bothered.
He again wrote long and detailed reports, but he need not have bothered. Plane Speaking - a personal view of aviation history
It's been a while since I bothered to capsulate him, but his column for the Sunday Times is worth it because it proves -- as if there was any doubt -- that he is such a sanctimonious toady to the Bush administration. February 2006
The reason that we bought these seats is because we don't want to be bothered with the general riff-raff.
So what is going on with the new EU members - they have only been members for six weeks and enjoyed all the hype and fanfare of joining - but firstly they couldn't be bothered to turn out to vote.
Perhaps this is the wrong forum on which to be so pedantic, but this is something that has bothered me for a while.
Brown has been bothered by torn tissue in his right heel since early in training camp.
Neither is unduly bothered about petrol consumption. Times, Sunday Times
Hot, bothered and befuddled, folk started acting very oddly. Times, Sunday Times
Is she bothered by police harassment as well as surveillance? Times, Sunday Times
We're not actually sure why they bothered, though: most branches of Tescos have their doorways cluttered by hordes of incoherent young people in ugly clothes getting in people's way.
Majors couldn't be bothered with marginal fields and were willing to sell off production.
Annie wondered why he had bothered coming to see her at all, if he was just going to rush off after a minute or two like that.
For the most part the only people who actually bothered to look at the registration rolls and allow the overturn of bogus objections were a few retirees who volunteer as polling officials during elections.
The Good Wife — despite now airing on Sundays in an earlier timeslot on the not-so-edgy CBS — gets viewers all hot and bothered with a scene between a bare-shouldered Alicia and a fully clothed Will in not-so-flagrante delicto. Top Moments: Flash-Dancing with Nancy Grace and The Good Wife's Sexy Tease
So when you are bothered by a choice, just relax and understand that choices bring conflict and there is freedom in 'choicelessness'. Daily News & Analysis
He was simply not concerned with any of those internal qualms about quality that bothered most of the people I worked with. Times, Sunday Times
If you're like me with some memory problem, I can't be bothered to memorize everyone's name lah Planet MYOSS
That was mainly because I was in Hong Kong already and I couldn't be bothered to figure out how to do an absentee ballot and I thought for sure Al Gore was going to win.
But I was more bothered about the 70 taxi fare! The Sun
Blue plaques have always bothered me. Times, Sunday Times
You haven't bothered to get in any soft drinks. Times, Sunday Times
Lambert, a focused, unostentatious man who created such reality formats as Faking It and Shipwrecked, does not seem too bothered by his critics.
In other words, we can't be bothered to speak to you or redeliver your parcel. Times, Sunday Times
Emanuel badgered and bothered the home player-manager sufficiently on the edge of his own box to win possession before striding confidently downfield.
Senate Minority Leader McConnell, 68, is owlish, phlegmatic, and gray, and often looks bothered, as though lunch isn't agreeing with him. Morning Bits
Usually they are old, familiar somatics, often complaints that haven't bothered the faster for many years. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
But apparently, the economically semi-literate numbskulls at the New Pravda - and the rest of the mainstream press - still can't be bothered to get the facts straight.
This self-centredness bothered some of his followers, who quit after the party's dismal electoral performance.
We have teachers and principals who would rather not be bothered with those who need extra attention and care.
Albums - if record labels even bothered to put them out - were just ragtag compilations of unrelated singles.
They managed to keep themselves low-profile so they weren't bothered by fans. The Sun
In Windows 7, the new User Account Control slider dialog that appears in the system's new Action Center enables users to turn off the "nags" that bothered them so much in Windows Vista. Betanews
If demand were normal, motherboard makers wouldn't be bothered about a high inventory.
If that much it true then I don't think it would be such to leap to assume that our solar system may be "quarantined" because of some "prime directive" thanks, again Star Trek and we may be prevented from being contacted...or we're so backward and violent that more civilized cultures wouldn't be bothered touch us with a ten light-year pole. VOTD: Neill Blomkamp’s TED Talk: Life On Other Planets and the Future of Human Civilization | /Film
He watched the excited diggers, who wanted to be diggers no more, climb atop great piles of coal, a new kind of black gold, and wave to those they never even bothered to exchange names with as the wagon train pulled out of camp.
He was a sickly grey color, his glasses were slightly askew, his hair was limp as if he hadn't even bothered with it that morning, and his coat and pants were rumpled.
I no longer feel my foot at all, but I'm not too bothered about that.
Things would kind of irritate -- you know, things would, you know -- I would be able to ignore a lot of things that bothered me. CNN Transcript May 25, 2005
Peter had never enquired into her beliefs but if he had bothered to think about it he might have guessed at a gentle agnosticism. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
So does it matter that people are becoming less bothered about what people think of them? Times, Sunday Times
Earlier this month, we reported how there was confusion over the resource accounting budget - an issue that few others have bothered to even investigate, preferring instead to listen to the headbangers in the Scottish Parliament.
He couldn't show them that their words bothered him, so he sat silently in the corner, listening to the steady drip of a leak near him.
He is a superhero-in-waiting, unbothered by an unbuttoned shirt, and thirsty for a franchise phenomenon of his own. Twilight Lexicon » Kellan Lutz In Interview Magazine
First thing that bothered me was the ride – it clops over expansion joints and impacts punch hard. Toyota Venza: Wagon? No!
I needn't have bothered as there was nowhere to play them anyway.
Only would be better if the postie could be bothered to put them through the letterbox.
Again, no one has ventured a coherent explanation of this theory, let alone bothered to hint at what the evidence for it might be.
But then I recalled our parking lot hysterics of this weekend and my angry words to him about how he can't be bothered to read my writing.
Are you bothered by nagging aches and pains? The Sun
PS: is anyone else bothered by the fact that the school is a building and not a cluster of portables? Twilight Lexicon » Wonder What’s Up Lana’s Sleeve

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