Example Sentences

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Composers were fooling around with repetition, drones, tape loops and the like.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025

“One thing I will say about all the new girls who just came in this year — the first day we hung out, we were laughing, we were fooling around,” Masonius said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2022

So unbeknownst to few boisterous festivalgoers, the "mud" they were fooling around in was actually feces.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2022

He also said he thought the men were fooling around, and that the two men were laughing as they ran by him.

From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 2021

I wasn’t sure if they were fooling, but right then, in the darkness of those same woods, that image hung before me like the ghost itself.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool