trifle away
Example Sentences
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A friend looking at the child of six said to his father, "You ought to send your boy to a public school, and not allow him to trifle away his time at home."
From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew
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 Cooke, John Esten
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
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 Bunyan, John
Life is not so long, nor happiness so common, that we can afford to trifle away two years of it.
From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Shaw, Bernard
