fooling around
Example Sentences
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The transition was rough for Ansari, who wasn’t fluent in English and often got in trouble for fooling around in school.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026
"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
At the moment, he had NT 5, NT 4, Work Station, Windows 98, and he and Eric had begun fooling around with Linux, the complex, open-source software system rapidly spreading across the world.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
