twiddle

How to use twiddle in a sentence

He stood like a king among his peers, but flushed and restless, twiddling his fingers as kings do not twiddle theirs.

No longer could Angèle deceive him—“twiddle him around her little finger,” as she would put it.

We don't know anything about it, but that is no reason why we should sit back and twiddle our thumbs and start at shadows.

And then comes a back-set of my health, and I have to twiddle my fingers and play patience.

Get under the pilot an' sort o' twiddle ye off the track, don't they?

Waiting the answer, he joined his hands, and began to twiddle his thumbs.

And the rest of us are to sit and twiddle our thumbs while you soliloquize?

THE IDIOT AT HOMEJOHN KENDRICK BANGS

On the other side he could twiddle his fingers at the corporal, who dared not pursue.

And I think, by then, she'll be able to twiddle over them wires by herself.'

I s'pose a gentleman would sit down and twiddle his fingers, and do nothing.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985