Sentence examples for trifling infraction from inspiring English sources

The killing of Eric Garner, who was wrestled to the ground and choked to death by police on a New York City sidewalk in July 2014, confronted the public with a disturbing question: how was it possible that a black man could be killed for the trifling infraction of selling loose cigarettes?

They are trifling….

The difference may sound trifling.

Nothing here is trifling.

By itself, the offence seems trifling.

It was simply ugly and trifling.

This can make the work feel trifling.

These problems, trifling though they may be, are solved.

The challenges aren't trifling.

Oligarchy prefers trifling evasions to real opinions.

Under the experiment conditions, the difference in phenanthrene apparent solubility between 4°C and 25°C was trifling.