How to Use fool around in a Sentence
fool around
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Auburn is a basketball school now, and so this is no time to fool around.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 28 Jan. 2022
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Two camp counselors slip away to fool around in the loft, only to be ambushed by the killer and stabbed to death.
—Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
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The group lingered to snap photos and fool around, building a hump of snow for taking jumps.
—Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
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Flowers that were too hot for fooling around during the day find their groove at 72.
—Bill Finch, al, 3 July 2023
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Kelly, for his part, began to fool around with letters.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
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Put the jokes aside for a moment, because Seager isn’t playing like a guy who’s fooling around.
—Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
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In the second, the duo loosened up in some more casual clothes while Stallone fooled around with a guitar on a small stage.
—Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
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Such is the cost of fooling around and faltering against so many lottery opponents along the way.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
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The mild soy garlic sauce has a satisfyingly tangy profile, salty with a funky garlic base, while the spicy sauce does not fool around.
—Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2020
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When a family is threatened, the adults cluster together to protect their offspring, and when things are calm the calves fool around.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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The first half of this episode felt like the beginning of a horror movie where a bunch of unassuming college kids head out to an isolated cabin in the middle of the woods to get drunk and fool around.
—Jodi Walker, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2020
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Alaskan gardeners shouldn’t fool around; gardening is too important to us.
—Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2021
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Professional services that don’t have to actively fool around with networking hardware, or measure for curtains are the ones where workers will be most likely to work remote.
—Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
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With only three people serving as potential victims, there’s not much time to fool around with niceties like character development and subplots.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Jan. 2023
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