Example Sentences

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You might hear the first verse of a song, maybe even a chorus if you're lucky, but it's never long before someone is fiddling with the playlist and impatiently changing the track.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2022

It’s likely, though, that discussion of what the Olympics should look like, where and how they should be held, is fiddling around the real problem.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2021

I think this is impressive, because she is fiddling with things I couldn’t fiddle with, all the technical stuff.

From Time • Dec. 21, 2015

Worse, our naive hero finds that virtually everyone is fiddling expenses.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2010

Science is loud because Mr. Levy is fiddling with a plastic skeleton and not paying attention to us.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée