trifles
Example Sentences
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As the judge in that case noted, the law is not concerned with insignificant trifles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025
She’s interested in adding regular savories such as pasties and sausage rolls, and maybe bringing new treats such as trifles or Eton Messes to her roster.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Unlike dogs, which are sometimes cruelly inbred to select for traits, warty pumpkins are merely briefly-held autumn trifles — even when a lot of biological science underlies their appearance.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
Other, seemingly familiar terms — romper room, sherry trifles — have their innocence stripped from them to reveal a second, more sinister meaning.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
However, no one had pushed him and there was no point in bickering over trifles.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
