trifle away
Example Sentences
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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
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
But though Fitzgerald had usually spent the summer months in travelling, he seemed perfectly contented to sing and doze and trifle away his time by Rosa's side, week after week.
From A Romance of the Republic by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
Do not let us trifle away the time in needless discourse, said she, interrupting me: I make no doubt of your sincerity, and you shall quickly be convinced of mine.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
I understand that Dona Dolores is fond of music, although she tells me that I trifle away my time by practising it.”
From In New Granada Heroes and Patriots by Kingston, William Henry Giles
