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• The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.From the entry trough
• What she said about narcissism is troubling me.From the entry trouble
• The opacity of these decisions is troubling.From the entry opacity
• My bad knee is troubling me.From the entry trouble
• A particularly troubling outcome of transface is the reinforcement of biodeterministic views of gender.2019, Jamison Green, Rhea Ashley Hoskin, Cris Mayo, sj Miller, Navigating Trans and Complex Gender Identities, Bloomsbury Publishing…. From the entry transface
• I find it troubling that Nadya views her womb as a clown car.2012, Ryan Custer Amacher, A Baby Boomer's Guide to Their Second Sixties, page 95. From the entry clown car
• The cost of hiring lawyers and engineers to battle out water matters is troubling.2009, P. Andrew Jones, Tom Cech, Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers, page x. From the entry water bar
• Those who find this column troubling are suffering from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia—the fear of long words.2002 December 14, Chris Lloyd, The Northern Echo, page 10. From the entry hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
• The recession is bodyslamming Corporate America in a new and troubling way.2002 February 4, “A Big Crimp in Cash Flow”, in BusinessWeek, →ISSN. From the entry bodyslam
• Barry will examine his women too severely or will risk troubling his audience.1985 March 6, Frank Rich, “STAGE: FAMILY PORTRAIT, 'OCTETTE BRIDGE CLUB'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry farfetchedly
• So, the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.”2025 September 6, Jonathan Turley, quoting Tim Kaine, “Tim Kaine’s Constitutional blasphemy”, in The Hill. From the entry theocratic
• But the most troubling thing they found was a manila folder with a workup on Justice Sonia Sotomayor.2021 February 21, 60 Minutes, season 53, episode 23, spoken by Esther Salas, via CBS. From the entry workup
• After months of troubling silence, the DPP Keir Starmer, finally stepped forward and directly and loudly challenged Yates.2014, Nick Davies, Hack Attack: How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch, Random House, →ISBN, page 299. From the entry DPP
• Thus, Caliban is troubling because he is, if compromisedly, human.2014 April 24, Susan Wiseman, Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550–1700, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry compromisedly
• The PE teacher, the putative authority on all things sporting, went out, as they say, without troubling the scorers.1993, Tom Raabe, Sports for the Athletically Impaired. From the entry without troubling the scorers
• It is at this juncture that Toder launches into the familiar and troubling topic of monogamy versus non-monogamy.1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author—All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume…. From the entry incident
• Joses," he remarked, not troubling to deny the soft impeachment.1918, Alfred Ollivant, Boy Woodburn. From the entry wunnerful
• JB Pritzker of Illinois said in a social media post that he is “aware of the troubling incident that has unfolded in Franklin Park.”2025 September 12, Nicole Acevedo, “A person is killed and an ICE agent injured at an immigration arrest near Chicago”, in NBC News. From the entry Illinois
• This practice, which was often adopted by individuals seeking energy boosts or stress relief, has taken a troubling turn in recent years.2024 December 30, ““Taba” addiction, dangers it poses among Gambian women, girls”, in The Voice, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2025. From the entry taba
• The metaverse is at once an illustration of and a distraction from a broader and more troubling turn in the history of capitalism.2021 November 4, Jill Lepore, “Elon Musk Is Building a Sci-Fi World, and the Rest of Us Are Trapped in It”, in The New York Times. From the entry Muskism
• It’s becoming known as Covid brain fog: troubling cognitive symptoms that can include memory loss, confusion, difficulty focusing, dizziness and grasping for everyday words.2020 October 11, Pam Belluck, “‘I Feel Like I Have Dementia’: Brain Fog Plagues Covid Survivors”, in New York Times. From the entry brain fog
• The result is a ferociously addictive, troubling, seductive read whose title, Thus Bad Begins, fits right into the literary world’s latest trending category, Grip Lit.2016 February 21, Emma Townshend, “Javier Marías, Thus Bad Begins: 'In the grip of a secret vice', book review”, in The Independent…. From the entry grip-lit
• It seems as if they traded in the complexity of a full range of troubling emotion for the clobbering pathos of the shouting match.2012, Scott Hales, My Final Verdict on 'A Roof Overhead'. From the entry clobbering
• Perhaps more troubling, though, is that even those sociologists who claim to be sensitive to the dangers of statisticism fall victim to it anyway.2011, Ieva Zake, Michael DeCesare, New Directions in Sociology, page 151. From the entry statisticism
• An unproductive edit war results as editors change the page back and forth between two incompatible versions, without troubling to engage in discussions.2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 388. From the entry edit war
• And therein lies a very troubling reality about the Orwellian — perhaps even Darth Vaderian — measures increasingly employed by marketers of today’s mega-media products.1999 May 1, Katherine Monk, “Empire of hype”, in The Vancouver Sun, page E1, column 3. From the entry Darth Vaderian
• Is that what's troubling you, Bunky?1989 December 25, “Grin, Bunky Your Holiday Ain't so Bad”, in Miami Herald. From the entry bunky
• As soon as I saw it, bless me, think I, what a podder is here troubling this gentleman with so many long printed letters.1946, English Association, Essays and Studies - Volume 32, page 38. From the entry podder
• West Virginia Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin was not impressed with the executive orders, calling them a “troubling example” of executive overreach that “could harm us for generations.”2025 January 14, Leah Willingham, “West Virginia governor axes DEI and enacts vaccine exemptions on first full day in office”, in AP News…. From the entry mike
• Perhaps most troubling was the wording of the official press release from the Taiyuan City government offices: “Yingze District successfully clamped down on a case of Christianity".2016, Andrew T. Kaiser, “Legacy (1949-2015)”, in The Rushing on of the Purposes of God Christian Missions in Shanxi Since 1876, →ISBN…. From the entry Yingze
• He had a lot of Cobainesque qualities: He had shoulder-length hair, played guitar, had a bad childhood, often complained of stomach problems, and had troubling taste in women.2009, Chuck Klosterman, Eating the Dinosaur, page 30. From the entry Cobainesque
• Perhaps most troubling of all is the fourth objection; it is not clear that the dyothelite model actually succeeds in avoiding something that looks suspiciously like Nestorianism.2007, Fred Sanders, Klaus Issler, Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry dyothelite
• He was brought down to earth in Georgetown, however, ten days later, suffering the indignity of being run out without troubling the scorers in the victory over British Guiana.2003, James P. Coldham, Lord Hawke: a cricketing legend. From the entry without troubling the scorers
• When applied to other persons, the idea of comfort is an intuitive measure of trustworthiness, reliability, and predictability in a polycentric world that managers often find troubling, ambiguous, and anxiety-laden.1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary…. From the entry laden

Meaning of troubling

1. adjective Distressing, worrying.
2. noun The infliction of trouble or distress.

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How do you use troubling in a sentence?

Troubling is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.”

What is a short sentence with troubling?

“Is that what's troubling you, Bunky?”

What does troubling mean?

Troubling means distressing, worrying.