TRIFLE in a Sentence

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For TRIFLE, below is one of 193 sentences:
When he came to call, his complete masculinity made Aunt Pitty's well-bred and ladylike house seem small, pale and a trifle fusty.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRIFLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
trifle
 n.  a thing of very little value or importance
Classic Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1  The black bombazine, with its puffed sleeves and princess lace collar, set off her white skin superbly, but it did make her look a trifle elderly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  When he came to call, his complete masculinity made Aunt Pitty's well-bred and ladylike house seem small, pale and a trifle fusty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Disappointment queerly stirring her, she opened her eyes a trifle and ventured a peep at him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  Scarlett trailed after him, somewhat at a loss, a trifle disappointed as at an unexpected anticlimax.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  Perhaps he thought it foolish that she should trouble him about such a trifle.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
6  The lady in black, creeping behind them, looked a trifle paler and more jaded than usual.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  Edna was a trifle embarrassed at being thus signaled out for the imperious little woman's favor.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  Madame Lebrun grew a trifle hysterical; Robert called his brother some sharp, hard names.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
9  He thrust the pouch back in his pocket, as if to put away the subject with the trifle which had brought it up.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIV
10  Cora was in the act of speaking, with an intent to advise the woman to abandon the trifle, when the savage relinquished his hold of the shawl, and tore the screaming infant from her arms.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
11  Then he seemed as if suddenly resolved to trifle no longer, and moved resolutely forward.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
12  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.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  His musket bounced a trifle from his shoulder at each stride and made his cap feel uncertain upon his head.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  His friend looked a trifle amazed.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
15  The front shifted a trifle to meet it squarely.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence:
1  Accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might have used -- supposing the machine to be a trifle out of order.
2  Don't trifle away your time.
3  The jail was a trifling little brick den that stood in a marsh at the edge of the village.
4  Why bother going to see a doctor for such a trifling, everyday cold?
5  Although the signs of decline may not yet be evident on the pitch, Latin American football is in chaos, with financial and administrative problems that make the Europeans' troubles seem trifling.
6  I brought a few trifles back from India - bits of jewellery and material mainly.
7  There's no point in arguing over trifles.