tinker
Example Sentences
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John tinkers with the Enigma machine we keep in the room.
From Literature
Certainly nothing about the thick orange power cables under the hood invites tinkering.
Sometimes she’s late to meals because she spends so long tinkering in the greenhouse.
From Literature
Students of the brand may know that Subaru has been tinkering with hybrid technology for more than a decade.
The defendant, of Harcourt Avenue in Sidcup, denied they were stun guns and told jurors he had made them because he enjoyed "tinkering about with electrical devices" due to his professional background.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
