Sentence examples for of trifling value from inspiring English sources

In medieval Europe myrrh was also regarded as rare and precious; but in modern commerce it is of trifling value.

In 1868, a court stated, "We will not inflict the greater evil of raising the curtain upon domestic privacy, to punish the lesser evil of trifling violence".

The memories return like snapshots: of vacations in Normandy and Belle-Île (France draws them back even after they return to the States), of a childbirth in a snowstorm, of apparently trifling incidents that resonate in retrospect.

Others found it most galling that, as one put it, "the president of a trifling country like Argentina" would make the crack while in China asking for money.

Take this "off-budget" Social Security surplus out of the equation, and what is left for Washington's politicians to squabble over is a predicted surplus for the decade of a trifling $1 trillion.

Chuck D would be ashamed of your trifling ass.

Kent Hughes complained that he was left in charge of only trifling issues.

Test your knowledge of the great and trifling wine events of the past year and you stand a chance of winning a magnificent six-bottle case of James Bond's champagne of choice, Bollinger Special Cuvée.

Of course, there are the trifling matters of feudalism, cronyism, ingrained privilege and so on.

However, the application of MW technology is trifling due to lack of understanding in the coupling of MW with other systems, its reactor design and cost/economical analysis of MW systems.

The most trifling of precautions would have shielded this growing monster from any consequences.