trifling

Example Sentences

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I tore through the pages, flipping over postcards, glancing at itemized invoices for construction projects, gleefully — and guiltily — poking my way through decades of a single family’s triflings.

From Washington Post

Still, Dr. Huthifa Alissawi, 40, an imam and mosque leader, says such tensions are trifling compared with what his congregation lived through.

From Seattle Times

A trifling example, but I remember seeing a brawl break out in a crowded pool room.

From Washington Post

"We don't view arms sales as a trifling matter, and we have back-up plans," he added, without elaborating.

From Reuters

Nowadays, she has no trouble with used clothes and her pursuit of bargains and scrimping on the most trifling costs borders on the obsessive.

From Reuters