trifles 1 of 2

plural of trifle

trifles

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of trifle

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of trifles
Noun
Elegant trifles that prove a baking fail doesn’t mean failure at all. Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
Strawberries are delicious in cobblers, trifles, and crisps. Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trifles
Verb
  • While Courtney flirts with tattooed store clerk Chad (Wolfhard), Norman and Neil meet a trouble-making (and territorial) phantom kid.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • On screen, the character of Grofield flirts with danger the way an artist flirts with an audience.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In an art-imitating-life debut, Wilder, 18, plays the son of his dad's character Everett.
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • As the largest global trade organization of movie theater owners, Cinema United plays a critical role in advocating for the interests of the theatrical experience.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • It’s preserved with salt, smoke, or other chemicals.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The result is transportive and layered, full of woods, smoke, herbal tinges, and a distant campfire on a crisp fall evening.
    Michael Stefanov, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, a pipeline is small beer compared to the world’s largest island, Greenland, laden with energy resources and rare earths.
    Llewellyn King, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • No one has ever rushed to the theatre for the sake of Hero and Claudio, the secondary lovers, whose wooings and sunderings, though eventful, seem like very small beer compared with the rich flirtatious spirits of the primary pair.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Trifles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trifles. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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