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Example sentences for: bother

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Americans who don't gamble tend to view gambling as either high-glitz casinos or megabucks lotteries--the only outlets the media ever bother to notice.
--Paul McSweeny, 14, who has so little respect for phony-baloney gestures that he won't even bother to purchase a fake ID.
Sacks' eclecticism doesn't bother Slate's Luc Sante, though: "This oddness is a measure of the personality that unifies it."
It's the kind of high-low juxtaposition--of reference, of language, of moral importance--that Woody Allen executes so wonderfully, such as in this excerpt from "The Scrolls": "Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?"
Translation: Hollywood doesn't care about originality, so why would it bother to steal from you?