Sentence examples for faffing around from inspiring English sources

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"They just keep faffing around," Redesdale says.

3 min: After two minutes of faffing around, Scotland are awarded a free kick.

We first-timers spent a lot of time faffing around, working out the payment system, worrying about our deposits, and failing to remove bikes from their stands.

A new report says that we waste three hours a day faffing around, doing nothing in particular, pootling, dawdling, pottering, hanging about.

Forest, like Wolves, were faffing around in the upper-mid section of the First Division table – but they were also the reigning European champions.

I've been faffing around, reading Fifty Shades of Grey in record time researching this week's Spin, but you haven't missed anything.

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Instead, he faffs around, looking at them piecemeal.

"People have faffed around but it has never been committed to.

I faff around with so many ideas about things we could do, and he just says "Yes, but..."....

9.41pm BST As Donald faffs around, Mickelson finds a bunker down the left then hammers a hybrid towards the green.

And thanks for your patience as I faffed around like a Luddite buffoon during that less than stellar Hayley McQueen-to-Natalie Sawyer on Sky Sports News style hand-over.

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