fiddle

Definition:
1. To keep touching or moving something with your hands, especially because you are bored or nervous.
2. To change the details or figures of something in order to try to get money dishonestly, or gain an advantage.
3. Play on a violin.

Use 'fiddle' in a sentence:

• 1. She told Whistler that his portrait of her was finished and to stop fiddling with it.
• 2. The fiddle began to twang.
• 3. He turned on the radio and fiddled with the knob until he got a talk show.
• 4. He wastes time fiddling about with minor matters.
• 5. He began with Palestrina, and fiddled all the way through Bartok.
• 6. She hated the thought of playing second fiddle to Rose.
• 7. He tried to bow his fiddle but always missed.
• 8. Ridley picked up a pencil and fiddled with it.
• 9. I did have a surgery a few months ago, but I'm as fit as a fiddle now.
• 10. You might say surely we should fiddle with out definition.
• 11. The annual Smithsonian Festival of American Folk Life celebrates hands-hands plucking guitars and playing fiddles.
• 12. Right now in Congress, they're fiddling around with the budget and so on.
• 13. His fiddle is in its box, he laid it on one end of the bed where it would ride softly.
• 14. You have to play your strengths like a fiddle if you are to succeed in business.
• 15. She plays the fiddle in the school band.
• 16. You don't have the ability to play the economy like a fiddle.
• 17. There are two sorts of ways you could fiddle with neurotransmitters and correspondingly two sorts of drugs.
• 18. Harriet fiddled with a pen on the desk.
• 19. As she talked, she fiddled with the buttons on her sweater.
• 20. No college wants to play second or fifth-or 15th-fiddle.
• 21. He had to fiddle the figures of his company's account in order to hide the evidence of tax evasion.
• 22. When Dad played his fiddle, the world became a bright star.
• 23. He'll fiddle with his socks and pull them up.
• 24. It's a fiddle& they put different labels on the bottles and sell them at three times the proper price.
• 25. The first two sentences you see: I, too, dislike it. There are things important beyond all this fiddle.
• 26. I'm as fit as a fiddle — with energy to spare.
• 27. The countryman stopped his fiddle, and left the miser to take his place at the gallows.
• 28. He brought out the fiddle, its varnish cracked and blistered.
• 29. I put down my fiddle immediately and turned.
• 30. He fiddled the company's accounts.
• 31. Stop fiddling with ( or fiddling) the pen!
• 32. She fiddled an extra twenty pounds on her expenses claim.
• 33. Stop fiddling your expenses account.
• 34. Hardy as a young man played the fiddle at local dances.
• 35. Don't fiddle with the typewriter.
• 36. He learned to fiddle as a young boy.
• 37. She plays the fiddle well.
• 38. She fiddled with her earrings as she talked.
• 39. One always wonders when a man starts fiddling about with his Will.
• 40. He was finally brought to book for fiddling the accounts.
• 41. So after another fiddle on the computer you print a second pair.
• 42. To see a game through to the final whistle while maintaining high performance, a player needs to be as fit as a fiddle.
• 43. All you're going to see is a lot of fiddling around.
• 44. He always likes to fiddle with things.
• 45. Don't fiddle with the rifle bolt.
• 46. It's also a story of how a father created a legacy with his grandfather's fiddle, and passed a baton to his son, so that his son could fulfill his dreams.
• 47. He took the purse, put up his fiddle, and traveled on very pleased with his bargain.
• 48. Being a modest person, he was content to play second fiddle to others.
• 49. It's a poem that begins, "I have heard that hysterical women say they are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, of poets that are always gay."
• 50. Pray let the fiddle alone.
• 51. As a last thought, he pulled out his fiddle as he ran, and struck up a jig, turning to the bull, and backing towards the corner.
• 52. She fiddled with the catch of her bag.
• 53. Hardy played the fiddle at local dances.