trifle away
Example Sentences
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You succeed in nothing, sir; unstable as water, you trifle away all existence.
From International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 by Various
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)
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
But I didn't hear the words I moved a trifle away.
From Beyond the Vanishing Point by Cummings, Ray
