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

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

A local cartoonist named Walt Disney was fiddling with an idea called animation.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2020

As I was fiddling with the various stations, I came upon one in the middle of a broadcast of a Shakespearean play—The Merchant of Venice!

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane