goof off

Example Sentences

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For me, I felt like I needed to schedule time to goof off.

From Salon • May 4, 2023

After watching his runners goof off in practice, he would complain to his wife, Tanya: They just don’t care.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2022

“You play with dreams and goof off in the yard and pretend and all that stuff,” Faneca said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021

This wasn’t a grim institution where parents could slough off their kids for a couple of months, but a place where teenagers were free to experiment and goof off without being micromanaged.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2020

I have been to Alaska some twenty times during the past twenty years—to climb mountains, to work as a carpenter and a commercial salmon fisherman and a journalist, to goof off, to poke around.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer