Example Sentences

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He complained about rampant "fooleries" like playing dice and cards and wearing masks.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2020

Jerry, who does the nightclub bit these days, may be recalling that atrocious bomb of 1963 when ABC invested many millions on a 40-part series of his fooleries, then canceled out after only 13.

From Time Magazine Archive

A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last?

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

In other respects, too, her present life was altogether to her mind: she had her separate chamber; was constantly beside the countess, entertaining her with fooleries, and daily received some present for her pains.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

I, also, have had my share of pride, and committed fooleries that put me to shame to think of now!

From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando