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A trifle
"A trifle" in a Sentence (6 examples)
Could you lend me some money? I'm a trifle short of what I need to pay the rent.
He contemplated the large well-proportioned letters and final flourish, with his head a trifle on one side for an instant […]
Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy. Strictly speaking, he ought to have been following up the picket–boat, but he was satisfied that the circumstances were sufficiently urgent for him to take risks.
He stared at the chart. “Maybe we’ll move away towards the west a trifle, and come down on Fiji from the north.”
I know it's out of fashion / And a trifle uncool / But I can't help it / I'm a romantic fool
2006, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p. 411, “Let’s get on with it,” Sikiokuu replied, a trifle impatiently.
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