fiddle
Example Sentences
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The haunting notes didn’t resemble an organ, a piano, a fiddle, or any instrument of this world.
From Literature
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She fiddled with her white headscarf, dimples creasing and front teeth protruding as she giggled and launched seamlessly back into song, arms upheld, motioning us to join in.
From Literature
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Irish pipes, bouzouki, violin and fiddle also feature in the performance alongside an oud - a stringed instrument often described as similar to the European lute - and Middle Eastern percussion.
From BBC
For once, instead of complaining, he sits solemnly, fiddling with his fork.
From Literature
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Threaded with fiddle, piano and lead vocal by his son Jaime, “Nashville Skyline” is an elegy for Nashville’s rapacious gentrification as well as a love lost to time.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.