Sentence examples for for trivial things from inspiring English sources

I touch wood seven times for trivial things, but for big things – like Donald Trump being handed the nuclear codes – it's seven squared.

The Mordvin god of the sky (Škaj, "creator" or "birth giver," among the Moksha people, and also Ńišké-pas, "the great inseminating god") is the chief of the gods, all-knowing and all-seeing, who is not approached for trivial things.

And speaking of BlackBerrys, don't forget to keep them handy; with the PlayBook OS's 2.0 release pushed back until February of next year, you and your coworkers will have to lean on BlackBerry Bridge for trivial things like email and BBM for just a bit longer.

When I was younger, my middleness came in handy for trivial things, like whenever I got a bad grades (okay, it still is handy).

What mighty contests rise from trivial things!

There are lots of trivial things that computers cannot understand.

"He didn't really care for the trivial things, and for that I considered him very courageous".

Despite having what one USDA inspector called an "an alarming mortality rate of captive born animals," the majority of Animal Welfare Act violations the aquarium has been cited for have been for relatively trivial things, like failing to keep daily food consumption records, or not having a proper area for medical treatment.

The playing field here is so uneven that it's absurd, as women are docked so much more severely for laughably trivial things.

"They didn't want me to feel odd about talking to them about it, so I've called them for very trivial things," she told me.

The dreadful thing about the legislative log jams that have confronted both Houses because of the intransigence of their members is not that funding for such trivial things as the FAA has been delayed at great cost to the taxpayers, but that it has cut into the members' recess time.