Sentence examples for trifling expense from inspiring English sources

Cooking oil may seem a trifling expense in the West.

This was no trifling expense – and there were travel costs – but the price was comparable with what might have been paid at small commercial grounds in the East End.

Web access was a trifling extra expense.

Until April many items worth less than £250 far more than the benefits an unemployed person receives each week were considered too trifling to require formal accounting for; that limit has fallen to £25.Mr Martin's determination to keep expenses secret is unlikely to go down well with ordinary workers.

for trifling sums.

Avoid trifling conversation.

This is no trifling matter.

This is no trifling occasion.

These are not trifling matters.

This is not a trifling achievement.

That isn't a trifling number.