TRIFLING in a Sentence
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193 example sentences for TRIFLING, such as:
1. Don't trifle away your time.
2. This dungeon is no place for trifling.
3. There's no point in arguing over trifles.
4. One, the most trifling part of my duty, remains undischarged.
5. Why bother going to see a doctor for such a trifling, everyday cold?
2. This dungeon is no place for trifling.
3. There's no point in arguing over trifles.
4. One, the most trifling part of my duty, remains undischarged.
5. Why bother going to see a doctor for such a trifling, everyday cold?
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Meanings and Examples of TRIFLING
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trifling
a. trivial; of slight worth or importance; frivolous or idle
Classic Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1 He had in his hand a heavy cane, with which he was trifling; but he answered never a word, and seemed to listen with an ill-contained impatience.
2 This dungeon is no place for trifling.
3 It is a trifling ransom, Saxon, and thou wilt owe gratitude to the moderation which accepts of it in exchange of your persons.
4 One, the most trifling part of my duty, remains undischarged.
5 The fatigue, too, of so long a journey, became soon no trifling evil.
6 A trifling part," said he, "and not at all to my taste, and such a one as I certainly would not accept again; but I was determined to make no difficulties.
7 The family had left that part a week before; they had called in such trifling debts as were outstanding, discharged them, and left the place by night.
8 One likes to hear what is going on, to be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
9 On the fine days at this time of the year, and earlier, certain ephemeral operations were apt to disturb, in their trifling way, the majestic calm of Egdon Heath.
10 To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
11 By the way, since you are interested in these little problems, and since you are good enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you may be interested in this.
12 By an examination of the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Context Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
13 Yet when I spoke to her of the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
14 I could, of course, borrow so trifling a sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it a matter of business and to carry out that business myself.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
15 My hardships were not so great as you imagined, though such trifling details must never interfere with the investigation of a case.
Example Sentence:
1 The jail was a trifling little brick den that stood in a marsh at the edge of the village.
2 Why bother going to see a doctor for such a trifling, everyday cold?
3 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.
4 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.
5 Don't trifle away your time.
6 I brought a few trifles back from India - bits of jewellery and material mainly.
7 There's no point in arguing over trifles.