fooling around
Example Sentences
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"What are you fooling around for? When will the contracts be signed?"
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2023
They may be able to get their users to stop voluntarily; programmers, by and large, are not malicious, and perhaps can be coaxed to stop fooling around.
From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2022
He acted as though he didn’t need the job; he just liked fooling around with it.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022
“I had many iterations and inventions of like creating my own drum kits out of cardboard boxes and tambourines, just fooling around and then making loops,” she said.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022
He felt that it was all right for a man to go to jail for robbery, but to go to jail for fooling around with Reds was bunk.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
