How to use nuisance in a sentence

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• It's against the law to knowingly allow an attractive nuisance to remain in place.From the entry against the law
• She was ordered by the court to abate the nuisance.From the entry abate
• The abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.From the entry abatement
• Apart from the feeling of suffocation, another nuisance of masks is the odour.[2021 December 15, Dr. Shilpa Aroskar, “Mastering The Mask”, in UBUNTU - I AM BECAUSE WE ARE: Parables of the United Human Spirit…. From the entry airgasm
• I gather they're proving more of a nuisance than a blessing.2014, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time. From the entry campful
• Lisle stockings could be a nuisance, as were hats and gloves.2013, Jane Howells, Leehurst Swan School: A Centenary History, page 16. From the entry gymslip
• However, 'nuisance or anti-social behaviour' is a source of grave unhappiness to millions.2003, Peter Hitchens, A Brief History of Crime, page 99. From the entry Dixonian
• The bosses grow weary of the scammers and squawkers and conclude that they're all a big nuisance.2001, Max Rubin, Comp City: A Guide to Free Casino Vacations, page 185. From the entry squawker
• Right-to-farm (RTF) laws or declarations are designed to protect farmers from nuisance suits and antifarming ordinances.1999, Dana L. Hoag, Agricultural crisis in America: a reference handbook. From the entry antifarming
• "You often find the most nuisance calls in crime-ridden areas, because the citizens are in fear.1996 June 2, Steve Vogel, “Poor areas wait longer for hard-pressed D.C. police”, in Washington Post, retrieved 29 Dec 2015. From the entry nuisance call
• If I don't give them something, they are going to make a terrible nuisance of themselves."1992, Vladimir Pozner [Jr.], “Monday, August 19, 1991”, in Eyewitness: A Personal Account of the Unraveling of the Soviet Union, New York…. From the entry Sakartvelo
• In large cities cars are nuisances unless you have enough money to afford to garage the beasts.1979 April 28, Nancy Walker, “A Case of Mistaken Identity”, in Gay Community News, page 19. From the entry garage
• Cammocky butter was a nuisance in Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight.1975, Geoffrey Grigson, The Englishman's flora, page 141. From the entry cammocky
• They are mostly harmless scavengers or nuisances or strigilators and are classified by Wheeler as being: a.1942, Edward Oliver Essig, College Entomology, page 672. From the entry strigilator
• It is a good guess that she is a nuisance to her family and everybody around her.1916 December 13, W. A. Evans, “Germs and Germs”, How to Keep Well, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume 75, number 298, page 8. From the entry germophobiac
• Most Tashkentis who could somehow connect to the splendour displayed considered the festivities an unnecessary nuisance and immense waste of money.2019, Kerstin Klenke, The Sound State of Uzbekistan. From the entry Tashkenti
• Richard Lloyd adds: “People are sick of being bombarded with nuisance calls that invade their privacy and waste their time.”2015 June 9, Tom Parry, “Survivors' guide to cold call plague: How to deal with unwanted nuisance calls and texts”, in Mirror, UK…. From the entry nuisance call
• Hemihomonyms (same nomina which are used for taxa from different nomenclature jurisdictions) are an overlooked but genuine nuisance in biological nomenclature.2013, Alexey Shipunov, “The problem of hemihomonyms and the on-line hemihomonyms database (HHDB)”, in Bionomina. From the entry hemihomonym
• “Ah, they must have gone on to somethin’ else when they ran out of nuisance to cause here,” guessed Aden.2013, B. Grace Emtage, Of Acorns and of Lobsters, Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry elfology
• Otherwise, our beautiful tree might become a definite nuisance on any Hub world to which it is introduced.1965, John Wood Campbell, editor, Analog Science Fact/science Fiction, page 43. From the entry hub world
• Then they become a nuisance to the community.”1963, Detective Book Club Selections, pages 11–12. From the entry canophile
• I've not done it because you've got nothing against them other than their being a pair of dim-witted nuisances."1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 138. From the entry gorilla
• Salinifying the lake would in all probability cure the nuisance.1936, Colombo Museum, Administration Report of the Director. From the entry salinify
• They muss our Monday washing up; on Tuesdays steal our tubs; a most distressful nuisance are these soilsome, spoilsome Blubs.1918, St. Nicholas, Volume 45, Part 2. From the entry spoilsome
• She was a nuisance to everybody in the car.1916 December 13, W. A. Evans, “Germs and Germs”, How to Keep Well, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume 75, number 298, page 8. From the entry germophobiac
• My father found me a nuisance, and put me through the mill, and I can never forget it particularly the evenings.1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVIii [Uniform ed., p. 192]. From the entry through the mill
• This puts paid to the argument that a claimant who comes to a nuisance has impliedly consented to the continuance of that nuisance.2013, Allan Beever, The Law of Private Nuisance, page 60. From the entry put paid to
• He wrote a series of articles about a gang of greenies who′ve been interfering with commercial dragnet fishing, setting off firebombs and creating a nuisance.2010, Jeanne Matthews, Bones of Contention, page 12. From the entry ning-nong
• Wind resistance is greater with travel trailers than with other towables, and hitching or unhitching can be a nuisance in bad weather.2006, Shirley Slater, Harry Basch, RV Vacations For Dummies, page 60. From the entry towable
• Why should the Police want us to spend nights hiding on other people's stoeps and beg in the streets and make a nuisance of ourselves?1983, J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, Secker & Warburg, published 1983, page 18. From the entry stoep
• Yet there is no end to the black mists that becloud horse racing, fixers, illegal bookies, and public nuisances created by horse racing.1976, Japan Quarterly, volume 23, page 225. From the entry black mist
• “I know I am a great nuisance, but they have been too generous with the cowjuice.” Generous and cowjuice were the keywords here.1938, Samuel Beckett, Murphy, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1957, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry cowjuice
• Bodies were always a nuisance -- even the small guinea-pig bodies from the slight clandestine experiments in West’s room at the boarding-house.1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator. From the entry clandestine
• The injunction method has proved the most successful, action being brought against the jointist and the building he occupies as against a common nuisance.1901, Charles Moreau Harger, “Kansas's Prohibition Status”, in The Independent, volume 53, page 431. From the entry jointist

Meaning of nuisance

1. noun A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
2. noun A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
3. noun Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.

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Questions about nuisance in a sentence

How do you use nuisance in a sentence?

Nuisance is used as a noun. For example: “The neighbor's dog barking throughout the night is a right nuisance - I'm going to complain.”

What is a short sentence with nuisance?

“a public nuisance”

What does nuisance mean?

Nuisance means a minor annoyance or inconvenience.