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Example sentences for "fiddled"

Lexicographically close words:
fictitiously; fictive; fida; fidalgo; fiddle; fiddler; fiddlers; fiddles; fiddling; fide
  1. I fiddled with the so-called glove compartment and opened it; the maps were all neatly stacked and all the flub had been cleaned out.

  2. Klaus Stringstriker had fiddled for a very few minutes before Simon was springing about, and cutting such capers as no professional performer had ever attempted, whilst the beams and rafters of the house quivered again.

  3. Will it be believed that the rascally Dwarf had fiddled every hair of the poor devil's head, and brought them all down to his feet in the shape of ducats!

  4. But his eyes roved wildly, like the eyes of a trapped animal, and how he fiddled through the night he never knew.

  5. The bull softened down, and stood still, looking hard at William Dewy, who fiddled on and on; till a sort of a smile stole over the bull's face.

  6. He fiddled so loud and he fiddled so long That the neighbors all thought there must be something wrong With this fearful old fellow, this fiddler McPhee, For he fiddled, he fiddled, did he.

  7. They appointed committees to go in and speak In behalf of them all to this fiddling freak, Who had fiddled all day and all night for a week; But their efforts all failed with this frightful McPhee, Who fiddled for fun, he fiddled, did he.

  8. He always claimed to have fiddled himself into Congress.

  9. This tower is called by the Roman valets de place "Nero's Tower," from his having sat there and fiddled whilst Rome was burning.

  10. Now, as this tower was built in 1210 by Pandolfo della Suburra, the senator, it could not have been the tower Nero fiddled on.

  11. I fiddled the Company of Fellowship Porters through the streets when they held their yearly feast.

  12. I fiddled a wedding-party to church and home again.

  13. I sat me down in a meadow and fiddled a bit, and then I went in and out the streets, looking and smelling and touching, like a little dog at a fair.

  14. Going up the river I fiddled a little to keep my spirits up, as well as to make friends with the guard.

  15. We never said much to each other, but we fiddled together, and music's as good as talking to them that understand.

  16. When I fiddled his uncle forgot to drag him into an orgy.

  17. Ah, yes; I fiddled, fiddled because I had promised his mother!

  18. Stood up and fought Karlov with his bare fists; wasn't ashamed to weep over his mother's photograph; and fiddled like Heifetz.

  19. And being watched was rather beastly; he remembered he had fiddled about with the letter,--half put it in his pocket and then taken it out again.

  20. The coroner fiddled with some papers, put pince-nez on his nose and stared about the court.

  21. Nero was seen to have fiddled to fiddle while Rome burned.

  22. Nero is said to have fiddled to fiddle while Rome burned.

  23. Tis his," said the Lad who fiddled for the Jew, and he pointed to Hans who traded and traded until he had traded his lump of gold for an empty churn.

  24. Patient Grizzle smiled, and the brave little Tailor, and the Lad who fiddled for the Jew, and Hans and Bidpai and Boots nodded approval.

  25. Lad who fiddled for Jew in the bramble-bush.

  26. Lad who fiddled for the Jew in the bramble-bush.

  27. In the middle was a circular bandstand where greasy musicians fiddled with perspiring zeal.

  28. He would have fiddled the children of Hamelin away from the Pied Piper.

  29. We wandered and fiddled and zithered and tambourined through France till the chills and rains of autumn rendered our vagabondage less merry.

  30. He plunged into the merry tune and fiddled with all his might, as if nothing had happened.

  31. And all through the orgy Paragot fiddled with strenuous light-heartedness, and Blanquette thrummed her zither with the awful earnestness of a woman on whose efforts ten francs and perhaps half a goose depended.

  32. The only coat which the good Blanquette has preserved is the pearl-buttoned velveteen jacket in which I fiddled away so many happy hours.

  33. We shall fiddle with Blanquette as we fiddled yesterday--and I shall be a watch-dog like Père Paragot and keep her an honest girl.

  34. He pulled the violin and bow out of the old baize bag and fiddled as we walked.

  35. Horatio fiddled furiously, while Bo shouted and sang and the crowd joined in.

  36. Similar remarks of approbation continued to be showered down on Billy, who certainly entered into the spirit of the dance with all the zest that his patrons could desire, while Sam Smatch fiddled away and grinned from ear to ear with delight.

  37. He was a fighter, a hard drinker, fiddled on Sunday, and had been known to go out hunting on that sacred day.

  38. A small radio was set inside the door; he snapped it on, fiddled with the dial until he found a PIB news report.

  39. Wait a minute--" Hart picked up a pencil and fiddled with it for a moment.

  40. A late traveller, visiting the Theatre at Cassel, says that the orchestra there was half filled with officers, who fiddled in their regimental uniform, without considering the practice as at all derogatory from their dignity.

  41. Still the fiddler fiddled on composedly, as if his life had been insured, and he was nothing more than a passenger!

  42. Tis his,” said the Lad who fiddled for the Jew, and he pointed to Hans who traded and traded until he had traded his lump of gold for an empty churn.

  43. He fiddled at the Green Man, He fiddled at the Rose; And where they have buried him Not a soul knows.

  44. Switching on a second lamp, one on his chest-of-drawers, he fiddled with things in the top drawer.

  45. Simon fiddled and grew fat, his wife remained as sweet as fresh cream to the last day of her life, and their children came to be the pride of all the village.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fiddled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.