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Example sentences for "fidgets"

Lexicographically close words:
fidem; fides; fidget; fidgeted; fidgeting; fidgetted; fidgetting; fidgetty; fidgety; fidibus
  1. He's such a muff, you know, that the very sight of his pointed beard and pompadour hair and his complacency sets me in fidgets to stir him up.

  2. I don't set so much store by my life as some fidgets do, but it's not pleasant to be shot off in that summary fashion.

  3. You know how it fidgets me to hear those papers ruffled, when I am not in a mood for reading.

  4. ENID fidgets towards the back of the door.

  5. He sits at the table, and fidgets with his whistle; he blows three vague notes; then imitates a cuckoo.

  6. She does not suffer much actual pain, only her nights are increasingly broken, and her cough teases her sadly, which only makes her say that she is quite glad Freddy is not here, as a cough always fidgets him so.

  7. Probably her thought translates itself into her sad eyes; for Freddy fidgets uneasily under them, slashes at a tree-bough with his bamboo, shifts from foot to foot.

  8. He does not like travelling with so large a party; it fidgets him, so he is off on his own account.

  9. Madelene stood beside him; "it fidgets me to see you standing.

  10. One or other of us has to walk or ride with papa every afternoon--mamma fidgets so if she thinks he doesn't go out--and then one of us must be within hail in case she was worse.

  11. I have got the fidgets in my right arm and hand (how the inconvenience redoubles as one mentions it)--do you know what the fidgets are?

  12. After all, I don't think I care so much about the singing very loud; it's but a noise after all, and sometimes noise fidgets folks.

  13. He wants to make a wedge to keep the window from rattling so on windy nights; you know how that fidgets mother.

  14. It fidgets me to think about life-times, and respecting, and all those responsible things.

  15. And me, I'm getting the fidgets and wondering to myself, "What is that there perfessor up to now?

  16. And we all set and sweat and got the fidgets waiting fur that perfessor to come back.

  17. But on the third day he announced that he was getting the fidgets in his legs.

  18. It fidgets me to think about lifetimes, and respecting, and all those responsible things.

  19. Mary tried hard to calm herself down to her ordinary tranquillity, and to represent to herself how good he was, and how small a drawback after all were those fidgets of his, in comparison with the faults of most other men.

  20. Aunt Hetty fidgets in her chair, and Richard Gilbert's pale, worn face grows perhaps a shade paler.

  21. The courteous gentleman who suffered from fidgets requested leave to walk up and down the room; and at the first turn he took woke the drowsy little man, and maddened the irritable invalid by the creaking of his boots.

  22. In this emergency, the member afflicted with fidgets suddenly assumed a position of importance.

  23. That the way you cough in the evening fidgets her to death?

  24. Miss Blessington, fanning herself gently, as he reseats himself beside her; "it really quite fidgets one.

  25. Their vanity and self-conceit are usually accompanied by selfishness in a very aggravated form, which only seems to make their fidgets the more intolerable.

  26. They have read Buchan and Culpepper, and fed their fidgets upon their descriptions of diseases of all sorts.

  27. Fidgets are often caused by the state of the stomach, and a fit of bad temper may not unfrequently be traced to an attack of indigestion.

  28. The fidgets had already begun for him, poor fellow; and as we sat in his study with our cigars after dinner he wandered to the door whenever he heard the sound of the Doctor's wheels.

  29. I put it to Mark that clearly I had best leave them in the morning; to which he replied that, on the contrary, if he was to pass the next days in the fidgets my company would distract his attention.

  30. Don't you know the Fidgets when you see 'em, you great blundering human, you?

  31. The Fidgets heard it, too, and in a twinkling they had hushed their shrill voices, broken their circle, and completely hidden themselves from sight.

  32. Guess Methuselah had the Fidgets sometimes, guess he did, did, did!

  33. No more fidgets now; the sermon was no longer heard, the fan flapped unfelt, and Billy Barton's spirited sketches in the hymn-book were vainly held up for admiration.

  34. You mustn't mind his fidgets and dawdling ways.

  35. Old Fidgets lost his wife, And sorely now does grumble When he goes to bed at night, He’s nobody to fumble.

  36. She got old Fidgets off, Made cock sure all right, And with the Yorkshire blade She danced a jig at night.

  37. If not relieved, the patient next gets the fidgets in her nerves, so that she wriggles in her chair, gets spasmodic twitchings, shakes her head violently, and bites her thread with viciousness.

  38. Then comes nagging, which is, in fact, nothing but fidgets translated into English prose.


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