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Example sentences for "fooling"

Lexicographically close words:
fooleries; foolery; fooles; foolhardiness; foolhardy; foolis; foolish; foolishe; foolisher; foolishest
  1. He says Congress ought to be killed for fooling poor people into taking lands that they can't keep, and Mr. Darrell I hope you will talk to him.

  2. Tis naught but fooling and trouble with such-like cousin business," Grindhusen declared.

  3. Was it your fooling about at night with your hair down and lights out you thought I wouldn't see?

  4. Gitinuntuhan níyag drúwing ang ákung tsárt, He was just fooling around with the chart that I had him draw.

  5. Manihúa ra ring pawuntin pin ug makahímù ka bag paági, Try fooling around with this fountain pen and see if you can make it write.

  6. As desserts go, out of doors, he has a right to a pie for fooling the dogs out of those five crowded minutes.

  7. They think that I am fooling when I blaze away with both barrels at them.

  8. Every few minutes he would solemnly throw his big black head into the air, stop stock-still, and yelp a long doleful yelp, as if begging the fox to stop its fooling and try to leave a reasonable trail.

  9. The colonel said he was almost inclined to fall in love with me himself, and he did put his arm around me and squeeze me, but I didn't notice any particular feeling, such as I did when his lady friend was fooling around me.

  10. You don't want him hanged or shot--or treated worse, as that Gentile boy was treated in Glaze for fooling round a Mormon woman.

  11. Why, Bess, you've been fooling in the water," he said.

  12. He had respectfully thanked the principal and the head teacher who had been fooling him.

  13. But I'm not in a position to be fooling with "utai.

  14. If you had half as much sense as Mr. Monkey, you could have taken the children and me on a picnic, instead of fooling your time away with a rubber ball.

  15. What was the use of fooling about a few score dollars a point when I could easily make it a thousand?

  16. Was he too a participator in the little scheme for fooling posterity?

  17. It is the Mocking Bird or Mocker, and it is he who has been fooling you with his song.

  18. Soon he found out that Mr. Mocking Bird had been fooling him, and was flying about from shrub to shrub making that sound.

  19. The Mocker seems to take delight in fooling people.

  20. I reckoned I better start in on my plan straight off without fooling around, because I wanted to stop Jim's mouth till these fellows could get away.

  21. Well, I went fooling along in the deep woods till I judged I warn't far from the foot of the island.

  22. Whack comes the thimble, and the child snatches her claws out of the sugar-bowl without fooling around any.

  23. You lemme catch you fooling around that school again, you hear?

  24. He bit the monkey's ears, so that, on the stage, all he had to do was to make a move as if he was going to bite and they'd quit their fooling and be good.

  25. We don't intend to stay up all night fooling with you.

  26. I thought somebody was fooling me, and I called back: 'Who is there?

  27. But he might throw it all away if he got to fooling with these Red doctrines.

  28. Well then, you might as well quit your fooling right away.

  29. McGivney had seen more than one fellow start fooling with their ideas and turn into one himself.

  30. Moreover, I announce my intention of fooling you gullible ones, if I can.

  31. You swallow all them ghosts and ha'ntings, and never look around to see who's fooling you!

  32. If you hadn't advertised your propensity for fooling us, your word would have carried weight.

  33. I took and told her 'bout how Will had done got his finger infected fooling wid dem dead folks.

  34. Us old folks, us told him to stop fooling wid dem dead niggers and all such as de like, 'cause he gwine to kill his-self.

  35. Hard work, trouble, and a-fooling wid dem dead folks, dem de things what make Will go away so easy.

  36. I have been fooling myself with the idea that I was going to leave New York" is distinctly a Mark Twain phrase.

  37. Will it keep the same form, and not go fooling around?

  38. They are fooling you," said Georges to the farmer.

  39. If my skates don't hang up on that wooden peg, like enough Aunt Phebe's little Tommy's been fooling with 'em.

  40. Now go away, dear, and don't come fooling about me, or you'll give her liberty to talk.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fooling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    badinage; banter; bantering; buffoonery; chaff; coquetry; dalliance; dallying; delusion; derisive; entanglement; exchange; fallacy; falseness; flippancy; flippant; flirtation; foolery; fooling; grinning; hallucination; hissing; horseplay; illusion; jape; jeering; jest; jesting; joke; joking; joshing; kidding; leering; levity; loitering; mirage; mockery; mocking; monkeying; panning; persiflage; phantasm; playing; pleasantry; prank; puttering; quizzical; railing; raillery; ridicule; ridiculing; roasting; roughhouse; scoffing; smart; smattering; smirking; sneering; spoofing; sport; subterfuge; taunting; teasing; tinkering; tomfoolery; trifling; twit; twitting; vision