fiddle
noun
a musical instrument of the viol family.
Example Sentences
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The problem was that his series of tweaks and fiddles had turned his team into a barely coherent collection of walking wounded and players lined up out of position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Bro-country hitmaker Jason Aldean debuted in 2005 with “Hicktown,” a single that paired screaming fiddles with distortion-drenched guitars to celebrate the ways single-stoplight towns make their own fun.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
Ludwig Göransson’s phenomenal score backs Coogler up, layering fiddles over doom metal as if they were meant to harmonize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
As he told Terry Gross on “Fresh Air” in 1998, “it was fascinating what these guys could do with these banjos and these fiddles and the steel guitars.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
He fiddles with the batteries, reconsiders the antennas, triple-checks fuses.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
