nuisance

Example Sentences

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Throughout November and December, people had come to Quirky and placed sticky notes on the door saying the store was not a nuisance.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Resident Leah Steward told the council the current music levels had already caused "a significant public nuisance".

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Documents obtained by the Creek Team detail chemicals used in 2024 to “eradicate nuisance weeds” in flood control channels, or “washes,” as many Southern Californians know them.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

Greenpeace International in 2025 announced plans to counter-sue Energy Transfer in the Netherlands, where the NGO's international headquarters are, accusing the company of using nuisance lawsuits to suppress dissent.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

There was a coastal farmer, he tells us, whose islands suffered under a nuisance of foxes—so he set up a fox-trap on one of them.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White