Sentence examples for trifling for from inspiring English sources

The worrying thing for eBay is not the size of the LVMH fine itself, which is relatively trifling for the $36.3 billion market cap company.

Cosey ambled into Roberts' shop one day and, assuming his role of a W.P.A. house wrecker, showed him half-a-dozen items, which the avatar bought for trifling sums.

A sexy witch by the name of Angelique (Eva Green) puts a curse on Barnabas for trifling with her affections, turns him into a vampire and buries him alive in a coffin for two hundred years.

"Left deviationism in opera grows out of the same source as left deviationism in painting, in poetry, in pedagogy, in science," the critic writes, finally denouncing Shostakovich for "trifling with difficult matters".

He would never have been prosecuted for the old, trifling pot bust he was wanted for.

But such minute distinctions are secondary to the overriding principle emphasized to referees: to not blow the whistle for offenses deemed trifling.

Since the energy of highest order coefficients of eigenvectors are trifling, using the proposed method for smooth decomposition results in very high accuracy, as seem in the figures.

But most French films are amiable, low-budget trifles for the domestic market.

I began thinking about whether I might have floating island or sherry trifle for dessert.

Included on the program's first half were four delectably folksy trifles for string quartet by Tsintsadze, a Georgian cellist and composer who died in 1991.

But the food is English: steak and kidney pie, two kinds of fish and chips, bangers and mash, and trifle for dessert.