Example Sentences

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The penalties—some $260 billion and counting for big American and European banks—have fallen mainly on commercial and investment bankers who have fiddled markets.

From Economist • Jan. 28, 2016

Other shows have fiddled with unreliable narration, often for comic effect.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 25, 2015

While other production builders have fiddled with lightweight structures, Hatteras has always favored practical and proven methods.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Chirpy squeezed himself further into the crack where he was hiding until he was so huddled up 38 that he couldn’t have fiddled if he had wanted to.

From The Tale of Chirpy Cricket by Bailey, Arthur Scott

I have fiddled for your city Thro' market-place and inn!

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred