was fiddling
- past progressive of fiddle.
Example Sentences
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I was fiddling with my phone during both expressions of loyalty, nervous that I wouldn’t get an intelligible recording of Mr. Paxton’s remarks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
He turned to his colleague who was fiddling with the satellite dish, trying to connect to the internet.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
An adult female named Fiona was fiddling with a leaf while her infant was in her lap and her mother, Sutherland, was by her side.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 14, 2022
And the fact is that Congress, particularly for the first hundred years or so, was fiddling with the size of the court.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2021
She was standing beside a steaming pot on a grimy black stove, and was fiddling around with the shelf of squalid-looking pots and pans above it.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
