How to Use bothered in a Sentence

bothered

adjective

• Lamah couldn't be bothered to work back and try to win the ball.
  — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• Page then took a sip from snifter which got the ladies hot and bothered.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2021
• Siwa laughs about the video now, and doesn't seem too bothered.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 1 June 2021
• The swell is a reasonable three to four feet, and none of the others seem the least bit bothered.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
• The second-round pick missed six games with the injury but doesn’t seem bothered by it now.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 15 Dec. 2017
• So nobody seemed the least bit bothered that their beloved truss might never see the Seine.
  — Shawn McCreesh, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2021
• Two volcanoes that get the interwebs all hot and bothered have made the news in the last week.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2014
• Holmes didn't seem the least bit bothered by the heat wave in her cabin-chic ensemble.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2022
• While the Pats are used to this media circus, the first-time Super Bowl players on the Eagles didn’t seem bothered by the pageantry of the event.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Players didn't seem bothered, nor did the rain seem to effect the quarterbacks' and receivers' grip on the ball.
  — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• After all, Reese is a busy lady and can't be bothered fussing with a floor-length gown.
  — Christina Amoroso, Cosmopolitan, 18 Sep. 2017
• Have the best play in it, not get snubbed because tanking teams can’t be bothered to field players good enough to make it there on their own.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 4 July 2019
• Chris, hot and bothered, treks to Becca's hotel through the empty streets of Richmond, VA.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
• You and your No. 2, Sheryl Sandberg, seemed less bothered.
  — Audrey Cooper, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
• Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster direct the film in a fly-on-the-wall style; the young students don’t seem bothered by the camera, at least in the footage used.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2017
• The typical advice is to avoid coffee, tea and ice, but Jones is less bothered.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
• But what’s most interesting about the fracas is that schools are so hot and bothered.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• But the machinery wore out in the late 1760s, leaving politicians as hot and bothered as ever.
  — WSJ, 20 June 2019
• Amid the old tires and mattresses dumped on the riverbank, mounds of rank green weeds gave refuge to birds and grasshoppers, which didn’t seem bothered by the fecal stench.
  — Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• So if downtown folks are so hot and bothered, why does Ultra keep coming back?
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2024
• Logano did not seem bothered by the start of Speedweeks and both qualifying races were much calmer than last week’s Busch Clash.
  — Jenna Fryer, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• This is definitely the Louis Knight that got the judges all hot and bothered during the audition round.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2020
• Meehan says the aide didn't seem bothered by his behavior.
  — Rebecca Nelson, Cosmopolitan, 23 Jan. 2018
• Athing Mu, a contender in the women's 800, moved through the first round of her race and didn’t seem too bothered that the track announcer mispronounced her name.
  — Eddie Pells, ajc, 30 July 2021
• Athing Mu, a contender in the women's 800, moved through the first round of her race and didn't seem too bothered that the track announcer mispronounced her name.
  — Eddie Pells, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• There’s a charge for evening meals at the Smokehouse, but guests chowing-down on a Mediterranean cruise did not seem bothered about paying extra.
  — Fran Golden, USA TODAY, 1 May 2018
• The security guard had mentioned that the wine hadn’t yet been filtered, but Liu and Fatty didn’t seem bothered.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2013
• The Mets starter didn’t seem bothered by trade rumors, allowing one unearned run and five hits in 7⅓ innings.
  — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2019
• Jacinto isn't the only bad guy in genre TV who has audiences hot and bothered.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 July 2024
• The super smiley tot didn't seem the least bit bothered by the cold—probably because he was adorned in a teeny tiny gray snowsuit from The North Face.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 5 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024