trifle

Example Sentences

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After years of working at the venue, the unlikely understudy took centre stage in the dame role of Sherie Trifle at the near sold-out performance.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

Leeman said that dessert at the celebration would be a Pitcairn take on the Platinum Jubilee Trifle.

From Reuters • Jun. 3, 2022

The triumphs and catastrophes of a multigenerational family dinner — presided over by the sisters Cheesecake, Cherry Pie and Trifle — receive play-by-play commentary from a pair of sportscasters perched above the action.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2015

Dessert includes a "Tayberry Trifle," accompanied by unpasteurized Wester Lawrenceton sweet milk cheese and organic Benbecula oatcakes.

From Time Magazine Archive

But these Bloodsuckers of the People compounded250 for a Trifle of Expence, by a few Presents to a Lady, or to some Nobleman who had the Favour of the Regent.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von