fool around

Example Sentences

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“With handing off, you can’t be fooling around and changing it on the fly. You have to practice it during the week.”

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He started fooling around with it and has been playing lacrosse ever since.

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What kind of bullpen fools around with an eight-run lead, as the Dodgers reliever did Tuesday night when threatening to ruin everything?

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Composers were fooling around with repetition, drones, tape loops and the like.

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They fooled around briefly with different group names and pop-rock styles until Dennis came up with the idea of doing a song about surfing.

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