Example sentences for: nuisance

How can you use “nuisance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The suit charges that stores in Chicago's suburbs knowingly overstocked guns, confident that they would be distributed to illegal outlets, and that the gun industry constitutes a "public nuisance"--that is, by enabling illegal gun sales, it increased the burden on Chicago's civic services.

  • Karl Marx finished one in 1894: A tidal wave of workers was going to sweep aside the obstructive nuisance of private ownership.

  • The nuisance of trying to sell it would probably make that not worth my while.

  • In "The Jewbird," a melancholy black bird named Schwartz lands on the balcony of a New York family and insists on being taken care of--a sad nuisance of a talking bird, fleeing God knows what tragedies (the bird says, "Gevalt , a pogrom!"

  • Last year he attacked taxi drivers with fines for speeding--frankly, any cabby who can speed in these choked streets gets an extra tip from yours truly--and an array of nuisance regulations designed to make their lives impossible.


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