fiddle
Example Sentences
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“An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin sang ‘Cherry Ripe,’ and another uncle sang ‘Drake’s Drum.’
Ninety-nine times out of 100, that means letting shareholders decide with a minimum of bureaucratic fiddling.
Mondelez says it has not been fiddling with the recipe, at least not recently.
From BBC
Researchers quietly work away, fiddling with parts of the machine.
From Barron's
I’m not entirely sure how to take that, so we ride in silence for a couple blocks as I fiddle with my backpack’s zipper pulls.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
