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

All great philosophers are the same, and, when they have almost destroyed themselves with thinking, revive themselves by child's fooleries, as, e. g.,

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

For I do believe that the old Strand, before they destroyed it with their porphyries and their marbles and Babylonian fooleries and fa�ades of all sorts, was the very finest street in all the world.

From Far Off Things by Machen, Arthur