trifle away
Example Sentences
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Well, if you know that, why do you trifle away your minutes?
From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by Cooke, John Esten
He merely closed his tired eyes and at the same time let his lower lip fall a trifle away from the upper, as his breath came brokenly between them.
From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various
To trifle away time is indeed to be the greatest of spendthrifts.
From How to Live a Holy Life by Orr, Charles Ebert
Unless customs have changed since I used to trifle away some time there—and people too—we’ll find some who’ll show us hospitality.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
Suppers please me extremely; I love to rise and breakfast late, and to trifle away the day as I like.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace
