While they have little use for it, the Kurians won't let a trifling thing like the sea stand between them and vengeance.

I mean to put things in your way than will make a mere livelihood a trifling thing.

The season and the storm have brought the inmates to the point where any trifling thing can set them off.

Curious, how a trifling thing like that could upset the best made plans.

He was getting out of that habit on trifling things that didn't bother his right hand too much.

It was a trifling thing in a boy of his years, a bit of thoughtlessness.

True, it is only a trifling thing; but so is mist on a mirror.

It might have been a trifling thing to some, but never again would she take for granted food and shelter and such comfort as this.

It may be some trifling thing, apparently quite unconnected with the subject, but there it is.

Mr President, employers have always treated workers' need for protection as if it were a trifling thing.