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
“What I do is goof off — and try to get away with it.”
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021
“You play with dreams and goof off in the yard and pretend and all that stuff,” Faneca said.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021
When we leave for work, they goof off or sleep.
From Slate • Dec. 10, 2020
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
