trifle away
Example Sentences
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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)
It made me also angry with myself to think that I should have no more wit but to trifle away my time till my soul and heaven were lost.
From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by Bunyan, John
Just as I got into the woods, he came up and told me to stop my cart, and that he would teach me how to trifle away my time, and break gates.
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Douglass, Frederick
She picked it up, polished it, and asked for a piece of paper to wrap it in, designing to carry the trifle away with her.
From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden
Well, if you know that, why do you trifle away your minutes?
From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by Cooke, John Esten
