trifling matter

Example Sentences

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"Nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking."

From Reuters • Nov. 18, 2023

For a lot of people, they will never graduate beyond; magic is a distraction, magic is a trifling matter, it is not important, it is not a form of self expression.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2021

Those late starts were no trifling matter; last season, they often featured LeBron James’s Los Angeles Lakers and Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2019

All that is left, now, is the trifling matter of some soccer matches.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2018

He investigates the outs and the ins of everything, and argues and argues about the most trifling matter; but I must say, he is always in the wrong.

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston