trifle away
Example Sentences
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You succeed in nothing, sir; unstable as water, you trifle away all existence.
From International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 by Various
She picked it up, polished it, and asked for a piece of paper to wrap it in, designing to carry the trifle away with her.
From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden
How am I to bring up my children if I trifle away my time?
From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile
Suppers please me extremely; I love to rise and breakfast late, and to trifle away the day as I like.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace
Swing just a trifle away from the straight line outwards, and the moment you come back on to the ball draw the club sharply across it.
From The Complete Golfer by Vardon, Harry
