give trouble

Example Sentences

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“He has a great chance to give trouble to the other horses, which I never want.”

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2016

Then its new-type disk brakes began to give trouble, and it began to drop back.

From Time Magazine Archive

You’re not to fret, Matt; we mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadder.”

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

There are, however, two other very grave forms of fever which are liable to give trouble in differentiation from remittent fever.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

And further on: "So that if you give trouble, which I will never believe, you yourself will not be exempt therefrom."

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous