Example sentences for: trifle

How can you use “trifle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Then she turned her argument upside down, praising a trifle called A Summer Story precisely because of its cynical, empty decorativeness.

  • lang's great quality is that she can pull off even the most anachronistic trifle without patronizing it.

  • Those that are on the ropes for this revision, include fuck-plug a contraceptive diaphragm, with a single example from a college student in 1984, a term not subsequently found despite wide questioning and extensive database searching; fuck 5.b. to trifle or interfere with (that is, the usual sense of fuck with , but without the with), found in a single example from a movie; and friggin in the rigging , a nautical expression for loafing on duty, which is too uninteresting a figurative sense even if it does have some currency beyond the single oral example we have found.

  • I'm afraid that, out here, the Brooklyn Museum story is a trifle parish pump; although, as an ex-Manhattanite, I realize the five boroughs are one hell of a parish.

  • In Stockholm there is a chain of fast-food restaurants where you can get, along with a fairly high risk of heartburn, what must rank as the ultimate in culinary oxymorons: a hamburger called a Mini Big . If that sounds a trifle too indecisive, you may choose from such offerings as a Cheeseburgare , a Baconburgare , a Big Dream , or something called a Big Clock . All these names are English, more or less.


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