Fiddling

"Fiddling" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Tom is fiddling with his bow tie.

Sami was fiddling with the beads of his rosary.

They're just fiddling around with that computer.

Skura was fiddling around with her rings.

The 2nd of March of 2022 was somewhat uneventful. I went to the pizzeria in the morning. There were some old folk with white hair. Homebound, I saw on the sidewalk an Oriental boy squatting, wearing orange and yellow. He got up and walked away. Some landscapers were at a yard. There was an orange-vested handsome labourer fiddling with his machine tool by his vehicle. For lunch and dinner at home, it seemed special with steamed tofu and fish on rice.

Robert was fiddling with his videocamera.

My mother was fiddling with the stove.

He was fiddling with the phone.

Kalman was still fiddling with the parachute.

Tom is always fiddling with his smartphone.

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He was fiddling while Rome burned.

[W]e, her doctors […] seemed powerless to prevent [side-effects], despite all our reassurances, and all our fiddlings and manipulations with the dosage[…]

Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?

It was a fiddling little fault, but ultimately proved disastrous.

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