How to Use fool around in a Sentence

fool around

verb

• Auburn is a basketball school now, and so this is no time to fool around.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 28 Jan. 2022
• 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
• The group lingered to snap photos and fool around, building a hump of snow for taking jumps.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Flowers that were too hot for fooling around during the day find their groove at 72.
  — Bill Finch, al, 3 July 2023
• Kelly, for his part, began to fool around with letters.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Such is the cost of fooling around and faltering against so many lottery opponents along the way.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Alaskan gardeners shouldn’t fool around; gardening is too important to us.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024