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Example sentences for "fidgeting"

Lexicographically close words:
fidelium; fidem; fides; fidget; fidgeted; fidgets; fidgetted; fidgetting; fidgetty; fidgety
  1. Ralph went into the hall, fidgeting his fingers in the umbrella stand in search of his walking stick, did not find it, and paused there indeterminate.

  2. And he stood nervously fidgeting from one foot to the other--the eternal sycophant.

  3. She whispered to herself that it served her right for fidgeting about other people.

  4. They were all in a state of suppressed excitement, for they fully believed they were in for something at last; while the guns' crews, fidgeting with impatience, were standing by their weapons ready to open fire.

  5. The tickling sensation ceased, however, and he was slowly sinking back into oblivion, when the fidgeting and tickling began again, making him jerk his head.

  6. At last it began to seem--it can be called nothing else--that something was fidgeting his hair about.

  7. The cook thanked him, and noticed that Mr. Lister was fidgeting with a piece of paper.

  8. Sam didn't say nothing, but he kept fidgeting about as though 'e'd got something on his mind.

  9. Nap Errol stood outside his brother's door, an impatient frown on his face, his hand already fidgeting at the handle.

  10. He was fidgeting with the paper in a fashion that seemed to indicate embarrassment.

  11. She looked yellow, and thin, and voracious, and her hands began fidgeting at once with the pile of letters and circulars beside her plate.

  12. Her shoulders were wriggling, and she kept fidgeting with her pen, rolling it to and fro between her thumb and forefinger.

  13. She was frowning and biting the end of the pen, and fidgeting with the paper.

  14. It slipped under her fidgeting thumb, and she saw that another photograph was behind.

  15. That train would bear her away from him, yet he could not help fidgeting at the thought that they would lose it.

  16. But in spite of the heat, the boys could not sit still, and began fidgeting about, while Mr. Kenyon and his friend chatted about the state of the colony.

  17. You see, ladies are easily made nervous; and if my wife had heard all that, she would have been fidgeting about it every time I was away, and of course that is very often.

  18. And all the time the King and I were fidgeting ourselves and beginning to think, as it grew so late, that some terrible accident had happened to you.

  19. He went slowly on, so as to pass the time, for he felt that it would be unbearable to go back to his mother's room, and perhaps have the nurse and maid fidgeting in and out.

  20. He came to stand beside her, silent, but fidgeting so, that she presently looked up in astonishment.

  21. And without waiting for a reply, he began to disentangle them, not without a good deal of fidgeting from the horse, which delayed him.

  22. Here Tom caught my glance, and looked shyly into one waistcoat pocket, then into another, fidgeting on his chair, poor fellow!

  23. Mr. Hamilton looked at the Captain and the latter, his fingers fidgeting with his watchchain, avoided the look.

  24. And whichever they say I shall keep on fidgeting until I see what happens after that.

  25. He opened and shut her fan as he spoke, fidgeting with the slender sticks.

  26. My lord stayed where he was, with one hand on a tree trunk and the other fidgeting with his quizzing glass.

  27. But there stands your cook, fidgeting and looking this way, as if she had a word to put in on the occasion.

  28. He was wearing a black apron and fidgeting with it in his excitement.

  29. Sophia was fidgeting nervously with the edge of her little black apron, and worrying a seam of the carpet with her toes.

  30. The guests who were to go to the church had already arrived; they were fidgeting about in the living-room and whistling to themselves, or looking out into the street, and feeling bored.

  31. Old chatterbox that I am, I go fidgeting round here, and I've no one I can trust; and I daren't even talk to myself!

  32. He regarded Sibylla's ill-repressed irritation and irrepressible fidgeting with a smile of malicious humour.

  33. His eyes had fallen to the cheque again; he kept shuffling his legs about and fidgeting with his short stiff beard.

  34. Like many contemplative men, who, when lost in thought, acquire a habit of mechanical motion, he had a mania for fidgeting with his shoes, and destroyed them very quickly.

  35. And before each fold of its wings, there rests beyond all the pale fire and din of a thousand slow eyed empires, feeling the seethe of their existence spent in a fidgeting cauldron where mediocrity camps with her dangerous throne.

  36. So they waited--impatiently, and fidgeting in their saddles.

  37. But presently the fidgeting hands of Richard caught her eye, and she looked at him.

  38. His fingers were very tense and busy on his lap, as though he were still fidgeting with magic.

  39. Perhaps we are both of us given to fidgeting about coughs and temperatures and things.

  40. He had a superstition that the absence of any two persons, known to be together, was never a thing to cause anxiety; but he was liable to fidgeting about any of his family unaccounted for, if he supposed them to be alone.

  41. Scott, fidgeting like a neglected pup, came wandering into the hall, book in hand.


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