trifle away
Example Sentences
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She was not one of the many who trifle away their heart's brightest affections piece by piece.
From The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
Well, if you know that, why do you trifle away your minutes?
From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke
Just as I got into the woods, he came up and told me to stop my cart, and that he would teach me how to trifle away my time, and break gates.
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
In this ridiculous boy's-play the scholars trifle away their time; they are laughed at in the forum, and still worse, what they learn in their youth they do not forget at an advanced age.
From A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements by Cornelius Tacitus
It made me also angry with myself to think that I should have no more wit but to trifle away my time till my soul and heaven were lost.
From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by John Bunyan
