trifle away
Example Sentences
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How am I to bring up my children if I trifle away my time?
From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile
What a fool he had been to trifle away his time till his soul and heaven were lost!”
From The Life of John Bunyan by Venables, Edmund
Wilt thou simper and gape and trifle away thy days whilst that dog-descended Frank tramples thee underfoot, using thee but as a stepping-stone to the power that should be thine own?
From The Sea-Hawk by Sabatini, Rafael
The philosophy of society is so practical that it is not allowed, even to a young Duke, absolutely to trifle away existence.
From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
But I didn't hear the words I moved a trifle away.
From Beyond the Vanishing Point by Cummings, Ray
