goof off
Example Sentences
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For me, I felt like I needed to schedule time to goof off.
From Salon • May 4, 2023
After watching his runners goof off in practice, he would complain to his wife, Tanya: They just don’t care.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2022
“You play with dreams and goof off in the yard and pretend and all that stuff,” Faneca said.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021
My husband is acting like my refusal to goof off with him means I don’t love or care about him.
From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2021
I have been to Alaska some twenty times during the past twenty years—to climb mountains, to work as a carpenter and a commercial salmon fisherman and a journalist, to goof off, to poke around.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
