How to Use goof around in a Sentence

goof around

verb
  • On the walk to the stadium, the boys goofed around and tossed a football.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Feel free to submit your best ideas, or just goof around with it for your own entertainment.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Look at these two, goofing around in their matching sunglasses.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Maybe people want to use their phone to text and goof around, and these stories are light engagement.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
  • A lot of players lost their motivation, and some people were goofing around.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • While the other literati tackled heavy topics, Plimpton’s engaging, conversational prose goofed around on the fringes of pro sports.
    — Stephen Siff, The Conversation, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Schedules crush spontaneity; responsibilities numb the impulse to just goof around.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Her kids, who are 7 and 8, are regularly featured in scenes from their family life—Little League games, Easter-egg hunts, moments goofing around at home.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • The kids goofed around with several Bucks staff members, including vice president of basketball operations Dave Dean.
    — Sam Amick, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This was where they were raised, where the future Reality Bites director would goof around with the other kids in their building and shoot their escapades with a Super 8 Canon his dad bought him.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The lighthearted run-through was for a BBC broadcast that would be the first worldwide satellite broadcast, Martin says, and the pressure was vast despite the band’s goofing around during this take.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The beachy video features Chesney, 57, and Potter, 42, goofing around together on the beach, taking shots at the bar, laughing together in bed and even sharing a few kisses.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The five- minute mash- up rapidly intercuts scenes of happy domesticity (a loving mother, kids in face paint eating popcorn in front of the tube, teens affectionately goofing around) with gruesome murders committed by a beauti- ful little boy.
    — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The five-minute mash-up rapidly intercuts scenes of happy domesticity (a loving mother, kids in face paint eating popcorn in front of the tube, teens affectionately goofing around) with gruesome murders committed by a beautiful little boy.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Now, their children are growing up together — including memorable moments like Savannah and Prince George goofing around during Trooping the Colour in 2018.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026

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