fooling around
Example Sentences
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Twelve years later, in his 2018 State of the City address, Mayor Eric Garcetti made a full-throated vow to quit fooling around and get the job done.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
The book reproduces the whole roll: Crosby fooling around with a little American flag.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2023
"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
Which was why, of course, Trotter tiptoed around the boy as though he would shatter at the least commotion, and why she was death on anyone she caught fooling around with him.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
