Sentence examples for trifle out from inspiring English sources

You can have your cake and eat it and make a sort of word trifle out of it too.

"They've got a lot of young guys trying their darnedest," Valentine said, sounding a trifle out of breath.

In his camp-cockney nasal protestations ("Don't you think this is a trifle out of date, sergeant?"), one can hear something of the angry young men who had begun to rebel against peacetime conscription.

They've done an incredible job – attendees run around taking Shepherd's pie trifle out of the fridge, doing arm wrestles at the table and pretending to stare at Ugly Naked Guy from the window.

I had thrown my red canoe on the roof, to explore the lazy Connecticut River oxbows the road flanks, and to hide an inspection sticker that was -- how shall I put this? -- a trifle out of date.

At the moment, she and Pitre were a trifle out of their element, for, as a result of some windfall, they were occupying an apartment on Richelieu Street, in Upper Town — only three doors away, as it happened, from the home of the mayor of Quebec.

In Harry's estimation, Deep Throat was a trifle 'take out the sex and it was 11 minutes of burlesque' - that put his previous experience as a comedian to good use.

A rare piece can fetch up to $3,000.Although collecting at this level seems pretty modest when compared with the prices fetched by, say, the Impressionists, all collectors have in common the desire to find an unconsidered trifle that turns out to be a treasure.