It may sound trivial, but if you experience this repeatedly over the course of a whole night, you probably won't get much sleep.

Put in those terms, it did sound incredibly trivial.

I made it sound trivial, and it should have been.

Now, with these performances in my ears, others tend to sound trivial and ill considered.

He had to be the final performer; after him, anyone else would sound trivial.

It may sound trivial, but could you put a precise time stamp on more items?

Everything he thought of would sound trivial by comparison.

Well, here's a story that may sound trivial but which I regard as revealing.

Perhaps Schubert thought it sounded a little trivial and gave up.

This decline in tumor size may sound trivial, but it is not.