TRIFLE in a Sentence
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193 example sentences for TRIFLE, such as:
1. Don't trifle away your time.
2. His friend looked a trifle amazed.
3. There's no point in arguing over trifles.
4. The front shifted a trifle to meet it squarely.
5. Why bother going to see a doctor for such a trifling, everyday cold?
2. His friend looked a trifle amazed.
3. There's no point in arguing over trifles.
4. The front shifted a trifle to meet it squarely.
5. Why bother going to see a doctor for such a trifling, everyday cold?
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Meanings and Examples of TRIFLE
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trifle
v. consider not very seriously
n. a detail that is considered insignificant
Classic Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1 The black bombazine, with its puffed sleeves and princess lace collar, set off her white skin superbly, but it did make her look a trifle elderly.
2 When he came to call, his complete masculinity made Aunt Pitty's well-bred and ladylike house seem small, pale and a trifle fusty.
3 Disappointment queerly stirring her, she opened her eyes a trifle and ventured a peep at him.
4 Scarlett trailed after him, somewhat at a loss, a trifle disappointed as at an unexpected anticlimax.
5 Perhaps he thought it foolish that she should trouble him about such a trifle.
6 The lady in black, creeping behind them, looked a trifle paler and more jaded than usual.
7 Edna was a trifle embarrassed at being thus signaled out for the imperious little woman's favor.
8 Madame Lebrun grew a trifle hysterical; Robert called his brother some sharp, hard names.
9 He thrust the pouch back in his pocket, as if to put away the subject with the trifle which had brought it up.
10 Cora was in the act of speaking, with an intent to advise the woman to abandon the trifle, when the savage relinquished his hold of the shawl, and tore the screaming infant from her arms.
11 Then he seemed as if suddenly resolved to trifle no longer, and moved resolutely forward.
12 Just as I got into the woods, he came up and told me to stop my cart, and that he would teach me how to trifle away my time, and break gates.
13 His musket bounced a trifle from his shoulder at each stride and made his cap feel uncertain upon his head.
14 His friend looked a trifle amazed.
15 The front shifted a trifle to meet it squarely.
Example Sentence:
1 Accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might have used -- supposing the machine to be a trifle out of order.
2 Don't trifle away your time.
3 The jail was a trifling little brick den that stood in a marsh at the edge of the village.
4 Why bother going to see a doctor for such a trifling, everyday cold?
5 Although the signs of decline may not yet be evident on the pitch, Latin American football is in chaos, with financial and administrative problems that make the Europeans' troubles seem trifling.
6 I brought a few trifles back from India - bits of jewellery and material mainly.
7 There's no point in arguing over trifles.