PROBLEM in a Sentence

Learn PROBLEM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
404 example sentences for PROBLEM, such as:
1. The problem of my conduct was solved.
2. You'll find him a knotty problem, though.
3. She refused to accept that there was a problem.
4. Stop larking about and get down to the problem.
5. He assured us of his ability to solve the problem.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PROBLEM
problem
 n.  a source of difficulty
 n.  a question raised for consideration or solution
Classic Sentence: (194 in 13 pages)
1  You'll find him a knotty problem, though.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  You see I have a lot of special knowledge which I apply to the problem, and which facilitates matters wonderfully.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  How to get Drebber to that house was the difficult problem which I had now to solve.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  I had almost decided upon this, when he solved the problem for me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
5  In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
6  At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
7  But the problem the animals could not at first solve was how to break up the stone into pieces of suitable size.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
8  The animals found the problem insoluble; in any case, they had little time for speculating on such things now.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  "That's the problem," said Mrs. Swithin.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
10  Six o'clock struck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently near to Mr. Utterson's dwelling, and still he was digging at the problem.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
11  The problem he was thus debating as he walked, was one of a class that is rarely solved.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
12  The problem of my conduct was solved.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
13  If we took no more notice of the one thing than the other, there'd be no problem.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  And that's the only way to solve the industrial problem: train the people to be able to live and live in handsomeness, without needing to spend.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
15  Whether this romantic martyr to superstition and the melancholy mummer he had conversed with under the full moon were one and the same person remained as yet a problem.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He assured us of his ability to solve the problem.
2  A competent mechanic should be able to fix the problem.
3  Stop worrying about their marriage-it isn't your problem.
4  Stop larking about and get down to the problem.
5  She refused to accept that there was a problem.
6  It's only fair to add that they were not told about the problem until the last minute.
7  Offering advice on each and every problem will undermine her feeling of being adult.
8  People tend to think that the problem will never affect them.
9  It is widely perceived as a women's health problem, but it does also affect men.
10  Details of the problem will be logged by the Help Desk staff who will then contact the appropriate agency.
11  His analysis of the problem showed great perception.
12  We need to do a proper quantitative analysis of this problem.
13  The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.
14  In a flash of pure genius, she realized the answer to the problem.
15  Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.