On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Fooling. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as casual or light and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Fooling meaning
present participle and gerund of fool
Using Fooling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of fool
- Useful related words include: casual, light.
- In the example corpus, fooling often appears in combinations such as: fooling around, fooling themselves, is fooling.
Context around Fooling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fooling
- In this selection, "fooling" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, either, neither, started, themselves, people and nor stand out and add context to how "fooling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after successfully fooling her co and also no fooling the frugal. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fooling" sits close to words such as aborigines, abreu and accommodates, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fooling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hammer: I was only fooling. (5 words)
We smoked some pot and started fooling around. (8 words)
All of us are susceptible to fooling ourselves and lying to ourselves. (12 words)
I liked to think my gain was down to the strength training I had been doing more of before this point, and muscle mass, but I have no real idea if it was or I was fooling myself. (38 words)
The State argued the car veered to the left on Lake Road before hitting a kerb, then a tree, because Mr Quadros had been 'fooling around', but their two key witnesses provided no evidence to support their claims. (38 words)
Putin also humiliated one of his deputy prime ministers on a video conference call, blasting the official for failing to procure civilian and military planes and accusing him of “fooling around”, Daily Mail reported. (34 words)
Katherina will not be wooed and wed, but Petruchio is persistent: who’s fooling whom in this merry comedy? (19 words)
Dmitry Kuleba in Zambia; Sergey Lavrov never even once… who is he fooling? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Nonetheless, you shouldn’t expect pinpoint precision in a House forecast, and models that purport to provide it are either fooling you or fooling themselves.
As a side-note, the “real footage” viral marketing was so effective at fooling people that the Maryland town of Burkittsville suffered from the association with such gory happenings on its back doorstep.
Fooling around with an Electoral College map, adding and subtracting states (and, in the case of Maine and Nebraska, congressional districts), is something that is fun to me.
Hammer: I was only fooling.
He may hear also that he is neither fooling nor educating most Guyanese.
It certainly feels ad-libbed with how much Dustin Hoffman's voice changes in the moment from his character, but with how great of an actor he is, fooling everyone would be easy.
Katherina will not be wooed and wed, but Petruchio is persistent: who’s fooling whom in this merry comedy?
Nick will understandably be livid with Victor for fooling him along with Victoria Newman (Amelia Heinle) and Adam Newman (Mark Grossman), so he’ll angrily give Sharon updates once he solves the puzzle.
Putin also humiliated one of his deputy prime ministers on a video conference call, blasting the official for failing to procure civilian and military planes and accusing him of “fooling around”, Daily Mail reported.
We smoked some pot and started fooling around.
We will also launch a campaign to awaken Hindus and will expose how BJP is fooling them in the garb of religion.
At stake is a $250,000 prize that Cirie Fields from took home in Season 1 after successfully fooling her co-stars she was a faithful and hiding her status as a traitor.
Dmitry Kuleba in Zambia; Sergey Lavrov never even once… who is he fooling?
I liked to think my gain was down to the strength training I had been doing more of before this point, and muscle mass, but I have no real idea if it was or I was fooling myself.
In 2017, for example, a class-action lawsuit against Nestlé Waters North America, which owned Poland Spring at the time, said the company was fooling customers into buying “ordinary groundwaterU.
Since his stint on the competition show, which saw him win completely solo after fooling his final teammate Molly, Harry has decided to leave the army.
The best thing about their fun and games is that it is the oil money of the Guyanese people that is paying for all of their frolic and fooling around.
There was also no fooling the frugal fashionista as she picked up "a bad fake" designer bag.
The State argued the car veered to the left on Lake Road before hitting a kerb, then a tree, because Mr Quadros had been 'fooling around', but their two key witnesses provided no evidence to support their claims.
All of us are susceptible to fooling ourselves and lying to ourselves.
Common combinations with fooling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: