Sentence examples for a trifling thing from inspiring English sources

This verse is a trifling thing on the surface, little more than the joke or jape Martial references in its final line.

And what would become of my mornings in my little corner and my late nights scanning the TV channels, watching my crime shows, not a trifling thing?

Richard Barry felt the same way in 1917, when the price of a postage stamp rose to 3 cents from 2 cents to help finance World War I. Writing in The New York Times, he acknowledged that the increase was, perhaps, a "trifling thing".

Womack proclaims The Bravest Man in the Universe "the best thing I've ever done" and he clearly isn't minded to let a trifling matter like being rushed to hospital get in the way of promoting it.

Don't think that this is a trifling matter.

Likewise, a trifling matter like corporate sexism is just another minor obstacle.

But why let a trifling matter like that cast a shadow over Ukip's brilliant coup?

Increased bloodshed seems to be a trifling matter to automobile manufacturers compared with sales and profits.

Who would have guessed that so much would hang on such a trifling matter?

That may be, but pointing out that "they do it, too" does not make female aggression a trifling matter.

Perhaps something could be done along these lines, but it would be a poor, paltry, truncated, trifling thing.