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
As he fiddles with his cap, I suggest that this very building is in fact a re-branded model of a youth club.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
She pops the hood, fiddles with some wires, then pulls a toolbox from the trunk.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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