trifle away
Example Sentences
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In this ridiculous boy's-play the scholars trifle away their time; they are laughed at in the forum, and still worse, what they learn in their youth they do not forget at an advanced age.
From A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements by Tacitus, Cornelius
She dropped her eyes, leaning a trifle away from him.
From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Kinney, Margaret West
Swing just a trifle away from the straight line outwards, and the moment you come back on to the ball draw the club sharply across it.
From The Complete Golfer by Vardon, Harry
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
Otherwise we waste time and trifle away vital energy.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
