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How to use trifle in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word trifle? Here are some examples.

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Installing the software is a trifle, though using it isn't immediately a piece of cake.
It seems a trifle self-indulgent to enjoy such esoteric pleasure in the midst of so much want.
He was fairly short, a trifle rotund, with dark penetrating eyes that had a way of roving mercurially over objects under surveillance.
Norma has developed a special trifle for Thanksgiving dinner that could truly be called a tipsy cake.
And then I'm going to take my left over syllabub trifle along to the beach for a New Year's day gathering with friends.
On a tight slalom course, we found it stable under power but a trifle squirrelly under hard braking into a turn.
My fellow writers if my words have left you feeling a trifle depressed and desolate, cheer up.
This isn't a movie with an overabundance of Sturm und Drang, but a trifle more aural variety couldn't hurt.
My trifle, in particular, was made with conspicuously fresh ingredients, and the attention made it a treat.
Popular desserts were trifle, fruit salad and traditional Christmas pudding, often made wrapped in a cloth and boiled in the copper.
He's just looking for true stories that lie buried in the data that, for most people, are far too intimidating to trifle with.
And, even if the eerily atmospheric music is a trifle intrusive, the design recreates the glaucous strangeness of the fjords.
A course of orange squash, roast chicken dinner, trifle and a cup of tea was prescribed to nurse my hangover.
Keep it in the fridge and use as necessary, finally ending up with the gingered sherry, which you can use in a trifle or stir-fry.
Yet he has shown a willingness to trifle with it at a time when it is more important than ever to Australia's security.
Certainly, fixing the price of a kilo of pineapple or tapioca is something farmers don't trifle with.
But this is too serious a matter to trifle with, and it's too heartfelt an issue.
Agreeing with the five years in office rule, he admits to feeling a trifle stale in the last few terms.
Sherry, brandy, and Marsala add flavour and an alcoholic kick to creamy puddings such as trifle, tiramisu, zabaglione, and egg nog.
Now I like deli food, but I am still dedicated to traditional roasts and puddings such as trifle and rhubarb pies.
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Examples from Classical Literature
His successor Zapata, in 1627, was a trifle more cautious in a conflict wherein the Inquisition was not concerned.
The cub reporter was a trifle perplexed by this talking over him and around him and at him.
While at Nauset an Indian stole some trifle from the shallop as she lay in a creek.
It is a trifle after that to add that he would frequently have been cudgelled.
If you forgot, you were fined a trifle, which went to the box set aside for the help of the sailors' orphans.
They thought their own habits and customs just a trifle better than those of anybody else.
What did she care for a trifle like quarterage while she was able to support both herself and her husband?
Is it a trifle that we temper energy with softness, strength with flexibility, capaciousness of sound with pliancy of idiom?
He was going through his letters, and I was just a trifle curious to know what was in a flat box which came by registered post.
Mr. Ginn, who seemed a trifle suspicious, called after him, but the call was unheeded.
She pouted her lip a trifle, her whole expression manifesting her contempt of him.
Silvia asked, a trifle diffidently, for she did not want to offend by overzeal.
Her happiness or misery were in my hands, and who could trifle with such a deposit?
Oh, it's just too beastly that for such a trifle we've got to skip out of this jolly place!
Was this a trifle, which only the Gholson-like smallness of my soul made spectral?
Is it a trifle that wre temper energy with softness, strength with flexibility, capaciousness of sound with pliancy of idiom?
Mr. Hempstead arched his eyebrows a trifle, and looked at the girl in some doubt.
And behind her the lamp in its socket on the wall smoked a trifle from a too-high wick.
The fingers which slid a paper cutter beneath the flap were a trifle unsteady.
To be just at the right stage, the blossom end of the melon should be a trifle soft when pressed with the fingers.
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