Sentence examples for almost trifling from inspiring English sources

As of Friday afternoon, 4,418 applications had come in for federal aid, a figure almost trifling compared with the nearly three million received in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005.

Scary as they are, these incidents are almost trifling compared with what happened in the old days, when the players were famous for taking the law into their own hands.

We meet the beautiful, entitled assistant to the editor in chief of a "Very Important Magazine," the daughter of a "well-known professor"; we meet the magazine editor who "looked at first to be almost trifling," but who "had cultivated a dry, everyman persona that he played to great advantage".

And yet it seemed almost trifling, compared with the $2.5 trillion rescue plan for the financial system — a combination of loans to banks and incentives to bring private capital into the banking system — that was announced on Tuesday by Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner.

And yet it seemed almost trifling compared with the $2.5 trillion rescue plan for the financial system — a combination of loans to banks and incentives to bring private capital into the banking system — announced on Tuesday by Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner.

They are trifling….

Nothing here is trifling.

The difference may sound trifling.

It was simply ugly and trifling.

By itself, the offence seems trifling.

This can make the work feel trifling.