Use "fiddling" in a sentence

1. ' he replied, frowning slightly and staring at the spoon he is fiddling with

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2. He ambles back, watches John fiddling with his wedding ring

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3. "Anyway, my sister wanted to be warned," she was fiddling with a ground-comm panel

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4. The girl visibly gathered her courage together, fiddling with the spoon in her saucer for a moment as though rehearsing the words she wanted to say

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5. Allowing the other pedestrians to pass, she paused, one hand on the post of the crossing for balance, and bent over fiddling with her shoe, her senses firing off warnings … she could smell danger

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6. Unfortunately, Cyberia’s appreciation of art and craft was based on the experience gained at her finishing school, where she had spent relaxed Wednesday afternoons fiddling with watercolours and making decoupage kittens out of old socks and yoghurt pot lids

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7. He’s fiddling with one of the shirts lying on the table

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8. Alastair is in the kitchen, fiddling with the oven

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9. spent relaxed Wednesday afternoons fiddling with watercolours

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10. ’ He replied fiddling with the beer mats on the table

11. “Yeah, one of those shallow creeps who only care about making money!” The third fat-cat said, absent-mindedly fiddling with the golden penchant hanging around his neck

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12. Desa was fiddling with the controls on what would be the amp if this was an old time rock & roll gig in what Earth’s music history now called ‘the age of the electric guitar’

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13. Tell him, Helez,” Xonia prodded Helez who was fiddling with her hands in her lap

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14. The visitor nodded a polite acknowledgement upon seeing Mr Pinscher, and remained standing, restlessly fiddling with the tattered hem of his threadbare coat, as he waited his turn to speak

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15. “You coming now, Major?” he yelled up to Warlock, who was fiddling with the weather station

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16. By the time he made it to the bathroom, he could already hear Ronnie fiddling with the lock of the apartment door, like a metallic mouse building a nest inside the tumbler

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17. Rosemary sat, fiddling absentmindedly with Jack's birthday gift, turning it over and over with her fingers, without looking at what she was doing

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18. Although he is not guilty as charged of fiddling while Rome burned, I have it on good authority that during the burning he did sing his heart out

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19. He looked at his opponent, fiddling nervously with his clothes and sweating profusely, and all of Raven’s guilt and neuroses came flooding back to him

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20. She was fiddling nervously, a slight tremor in her fingers

21. some stranger fiddling around with something that could as easily be programmed to kill you

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22. Dawn sat beside Sheena as she drove the car along the track, fiddling with the radio

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23. I stood by the driver’s door fiddling with the key, trying to get it into the lock of the door while trying to hold my handbag and my extra bag which held all my files, all at the same time

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24. He put his hands over mine that were fiddling with the napkin

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25. A nurse was standing beside the bed fiddling with a new machine with a different bleep

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26. ” Lee looked over his shoulder and smiled before going back to fiddling with the outboard motor

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27. He could see the doctor idly fiddling with some sort of paper on his writing pad

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28. She was sitting, propped up by lots of pillows, on the chair she sat in day in and day out, fiddling with the television constantly

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29. “It’s beautiful,” Manda said, fiddling with the knobs

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30. But despite fiddling with a few buttons, the radio's reception fails to improve

31. There was a noisy table fan that the kid was fiddling with

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32. “Is that all you feel?” He quizzes, fiddling with my fingers

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33. “Ah the best kind” he said fiddling with my bra strap

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34. This loss was just another unanticipated, but huge, consequence of government’s ‘all-knowing’ management and fiddling with efficient production

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35. "You have a longer rest this time, because it takes more fiddling to get the cavalry through the foot ranks

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36. And what would that be?” She busied herself moving the beddings behind and fiddling

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37. “What or who is Jahna? There wasn’t anyone named Jahna on that job,” he countered, still fiddling with his phone

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38. Connie’s fiddling with her TV remote as he thanks her upon leaving

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39. No fiddling with

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40. Tonight whilst your partner is talking at you try fiddling with your phone, don't maintain eye contact with her, start working out what you are going to say to her in response to what she's said, but do it whilst she's still talking

41. He looked at G then back to his hands, fiddling with his fingers as he struggled to find the right words

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42. “No, I was just fiddling around on the internet

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43. After fiddling with all

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44. Dan could see a few people around the building fiddling with some cables

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45. She was so urgent and so poorly Informed that she explained to them In another letter that there was no such state of agitation and that everything was the result of the lunacy of a brother-in-law of hers who was fiddling around at that time in that labor union non-sense just as he had been involved with cockfighting and riverboats before

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46. He was fiddling with the idea of calling in the

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47. master console and sat thinking and idly fiddling with the

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48. relationships and fiddling with Database objects

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49. As the two guards drove away towards the causeway Mr Hawk and Mr Crow pulled in along side the truck, they waited ten minutes for the guards to settle in, then Mr Hawk and Mr Crow both got out of the panel van and walked past the drivers door of the truck, Murray reached into the glove box and retrieved his leather wallet of lock picks and walked after them, they turned in at the second house along, well, not exactly a house, it was more along the lines of a mansion, the money they were about to steal wouldn’t even be enough to rent this place for a month let alone buy it, and they say crime doesn’t pay, Murray keeping his mind on the job, fiddling with the lock and thought to himself for what the owners had paid for the oak door you’d think they would have had proper locks fitted, they were inside in less than ten seconds

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50. Fifteen minutes later after a bit more fiddling with his probe he called to Mr Hawk and they carried the box out to the vehicle then went back in and began to carry the tool bags with the gear in out to the truck, Mr Hawk called Mr Crow to help load the truck, Mr Hawk and Murray were folding up the blackout curtain when Mr Crow said

51. Lord Ashburn, fiddling with the chain of his pocket watch as if he was annoyed by its refusal to lay in a specific fashion, was seated uncomfortably in his wheelchair but, like his wife, maintained a sense of strength and 314

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52. ����������� �Last time I checked on him, he was still fiddling around the guts of that radar set, sir

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53. He waited in the main lobby until 4pm, and then came out of the entrance, fiddling with a document and placed it in his inside jacket pocket

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54. There he was, fiddling with the lock of the front

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55. I argued that a conclusion like that sounded very arrogant and my heat shut off and didn't come on again for a week despite my endless fiddling with the thermostat and shaking my fist at the walls

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56. “How's it work?” asked Terry, fiddling with a switch on the wall

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57. I’m surprised they are fiddling with gold because that would receive more

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58. She waited until he finished fiddling with the buttons

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59. over to the passenger door, fiddling with something

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60. I see him fiddling with something silver and shiny and immediately recognize it

61. I drove on into the sunset with one hand on the wheel and the other constantly fiddling with the radio dial trying to find something other than country music, not that I don’t like country music; I was just trying to find some talk radio to keep my mind off of my troubles

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62. He’s fiddling with his wristwatch, twisting a tiny knob between his fingers

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63. On the second verse, Stu Corrigan joined in, fiddling softly

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64. she blushed and started fiddling with the medical supplies

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65. Gladys didn’t have a clue what he was doing, switching things on and off and fiddling with his mouse

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66. I could see him fiddling about with it in his pocket

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67. Theo climbed into the driver’s side, then reached over fiddling with the lock until it released to open the passenger door

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68. After a minute of fiddling and fumbling with the key, Linda realized it was still in the ‘on’ position

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69. barry was fiddling with the GPS, punching in the address of the doctor

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70. That brilliant pioneer in genetic fiddling is the one who’d use his ability to cause a human life to be “born” just so it could be used as an organ-supply for an already-living, but damaged child

71. She follows it and finds Loki kneeling in front of the TV cabinet fiddling with the remote

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72. She turned to me and grinned while fiddling with the timer in her hands

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73. The mole was down there fiddling nervously with his seeing glasses

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74. Tanya lingered in the toilets at her leisure, reapplying makeup and fiddling with her hair as she contemplated what now inevitably lay before her

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75. cigarette and fiddling with his pool stick as his opponent hit a combo eliminating two

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76. Danny sat there fiddling with a beer coaster

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77. He jumped up into the cab and after fiddling with the

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78. I obeyed and he began fiddling around with things in the engine

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79. Don reached over and took a small lock of her hair between his finger and thumb, fiddling with it a moment before fixing his gaze on the woman it belonged to

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80. Annie shrugged, fiddling with the crystals again

81. "Yes," George said, fiddling with his necktie again

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82. playing World of Warcraft on his PC; updating his homepage or fiddling around with something technical such his remote-control car motor that was always in need of repair

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83. Topps was fiddling with my shell bracelet I left on my cabinet; he never could keep

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84. Kaspar had taken a seat on the stump he'd been posing on and was fiddling with his bow

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85. Mikhail was deliberately fiddling with an elegant white napkin to avoid eye contact with Nikolas

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86. is constantly fiddling with the pump prices

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87. Jake is dozing, and Ricardo and I are fiddling with our computers

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88. is still fiddling with his gun - the goat falls

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89. his lap, and started fiddling with it

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90. “Excuse me?” said Peter fiddling with his hands

91. Today for instance, what conclusions can I draw? That I am, finally, impotent? Oh, certainly, I am not young or virile but am I totally senile? When the girl was fiddling me, my mind was not in it

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92. He is proud of being lucky enough to be rich in land, Nature, hunting, whittling, working, music, fiddling, marriage, love, etc… while all other humans are not as well-off , or as lucky as he is

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93. We were at a party and Derrick was drunk and he and this girl went into the bedroom and well you can fill in the rest," Josh said fiddling with his hands

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94. I couldn't stop fiddling with my white and pink floral dress and constantly adjusting my black cardigan sweater and belt around my stomach

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95. We were sitting about later, watching TV, and Al was fiddling about with my laptop

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96. I stopped fiddling with the saddle and stared vacantly over it at the distant horizon for a moment

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