fiddling - use in sentences

Preposition: with

  • wire: Whats to stop them fiddling with the wires at the back of the TV or 50 other dangerous things?
  • specimen: Dear Auntie Al, I quite often get caught fiddling with specimens of ancient Scottish history that are usually very valuable.

Infinitive complement

  • get: Did some more fiddling around to get the euro stuff working.

Modifies a noun

  • figure: Instead of fiddling figures that he does not even include in his publications, will he now pledge to do just that?
  • round: The catheter needs careful fiddling round the turns in the deep artery.
  • contest: Towboat miss nariand fiddling contest square reef from day the young lady.
  • revival: Many of the tunes have passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival of the later twentieth century.
  • square: Railroad luxury river cruise connection from fiddling contest square has the greatest closet space was.
  • time: You fatally dwindle as you dwell in your fiddling time.

Modifying Another Word

  • little: In addition to this CJ does a little fiddling with the contrast levels, making them a touch high.
  • much: The few example of slide scanning a friend of mine did on my scanner came out great without much fiddling.
  • still: Scott looked down at the manuscript on the piano, " Still fiddling with this piece then " , he asked.
  • about: Politics today is about fiddling, making a tweak here or there but not changing anything much.

Used with adjective complement

  • catch: Dear Auntie Al, I quite often get caught fiddling with specimens of ancient Scottish history that are usually very valuable.

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