fooling around
Example Sentences
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Composers were fooling around with repetition, drones, tape loops and the like.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025
"What are you fooling around for? When will the contracts be signed?"
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2023
They may be able to get their users to stop voluntarily; programmers, by and large, are not malicious, and perhaps can be coaxed to stop fooling around.
From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2022
He acted as though he didn’t need the job; he just liked fooling around with it.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022
The usual way this happened was that the teacher on playground duty inspected the lines, told off anyone who was talking or fooling around, and dismissed the classes one at a time.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
