Sentence examples for fooling about from inspiring English sources

"When a senior official eventually could not stand it any longer and got on his knees to pick them up, she told him to 'stop fooling about down there.'" Although he started his political career as a militant young socialist, Thorn joined the centre-right Liberal Democrats in the Grand Duchy after his postwar law studies, and was a member of the European parliament from 1959 until 1969.

That wasn't even on my mind when I was fooling about, because no one talked about it, but there you have it.

That camaraderie is important, and in the periods when they are preparing to go underground the men are constantly joking and fooling about.

It goes on to consist of fooling about with the stuff the world is made of: with sounds, and with shapes and colours, and with clay and paper and wood and metal, and with language.

One website on Lubitz's Facebook profile was Wenn Männer alleine sind or (When Men are Alone) – not a place for lonely singles but a humorous website that includes videos of men fooling about with chainsaws on frozen lakes, or haplessly looking after babies.

Green Light was written after Lorde and Antonoff went to a Florence + the Machine gig in Brooklyn, the collaborators fooling about in the studio the next morning and obsessing over the joyful, "British" way that Welch's keyboardist had pounded her instrument.

You can fool about with giant mushrooms or feel your nose growing longer, like Pinocchio.

You can fool about with it".

But no one on either side was being fooled about the tough road ahead.

There is a similar chance for us to be fooled about the extent of today's problems.

Few were fooled about the old leader's real intention to rule as president for life, come what may in his aftermath.