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

He was less reserved, more eager to goof off with his new friends.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021

My husband is acting like my refusal to goof off with him means I don’t love or care about him.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2021

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