fooling 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.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
"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
A car alarm on the mainland, or some obnoxious kid fooling around with an air horn.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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