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Example sentences for "meddled"

Lexicographically close words:
medallists; medals; medanos; medder; meddle; meddler; meddlers; meddles; meddlesome; meddlesomeness
  1. I never meddled me with players, ne never had part of them that walk in lightness.

  2. Then he did take strong venom and meddled it with wine, and made invocation of the names of his false gods, and gave it to St. George to drink.

  3. A Lady was bragging that she had overthrown her Enemy in Law: One of her Servants standing by, said, He took a wrong Sow by the ear, when he meddled with your Ladyship.

  4. Nor I neither, quoth hee, but with him I bargained, and him have I paid; with you I meddled not, and therefore go seeke him if you will.

  5. She had certainly encouraged it, and, whether from conscience or invincible habit, she had meddled a good deal with it ever since.

  6. It would certainly have been better, he ruefully admitted, if he had not meddled so much with Eugénie's youth.

  7. They tore it open and examined it, happily unconscious that they were handling the most explosive kind of gunpowder that they had ever meddled with.

  8. Oh that I could see burnt and turned to ashes the first man that meddled with knight-errantry or at any rate the first who chose to be squire to such fools as all the knights-errant of past times must have been!

  9. Clara could hardly have drawn it as she did if it had not been meddled with before.

  10. I have a special regard for them,' he went on; 'and I don't want them meddled with.

  11. So went he from us, into the Privy Chamber; and from that time never meddled more with me.

  12. But I meddled with no man's quarrels: and if I should have received none, but such as cordially, and in truth had loved him; I might have gone to dinner many times without company!

  13. Poor Sir Arthur would lose his bill as well as his sweetheart, now that Camelia had meddled so disastrously.

  14. Some one has meddled with it," said Mr. Bradford.

  15. This was just the way I did the day I meddled with papa's inkstand.

  16. I hope nobody will think we meddled with that picture," said Bessie.

  17. But some of those things are very costly, and you might do much mischief if you meddled with them.

  18. And as to the estate, and his sister's going too much by Jermyn's advice, he never meddled with business: it was not his duty as a clergyman.

  19. It was easy enough to satisfy the old man; but it was conceived that the hypochondriacal complaint of his wife, was too dangerous to be meddled with by unprofessional hands.

  20. In the days of Oliver I was taken up on pretence of raising arms against him, which was also false; for I meddled not with raising arms at all.

  21. And indeed this Justice Hotham had asked me before whether any people had meddled with me, or abused me; but I was not at liberty to tell him anything of that kind, but was to forgive all.

  22. Therein he saw all his actions characterized; which shamed him so that from that time he meddled little with the Lord's servants.

  23. When he meddled in politics, it was to encourage the king in courses which were hateful to the nation--in forming an alliance with Spain, and in persisting in illegal taxation.

  24. This reproof provoked the king to anger, and he commanded the prophet to hold his peace, and threatened to punish him if he meddled with his conduct.

  25. Philomelus now announced that the temple and its oracles would not be meddled with.

  26. They were held too precious to be meddled with.

  27. Mr. Hastings had never meddled in the strife of party.

  28. I have meddled little with magisterial affairs lately.

  29. The majority of the women therefore who meddled with politics were, through sympathy, of his party.

  30. It was of great importance to the Government to understand why France had meddled in the matter.

  31. It was political ambition which was the vulnerable spot in this Achilles, and until he meddled with statecraft, his position was practically unassailed.

  32. If Miss Pett or Christopher had meddled with the waistcoat, the revolver, too, might have been meddled with.

  33. He was too strong at Korikul and Kukeyra, as well as in every village of the frontier, to be meddled with.

  34. I delivered it unto the printer, who being an arch Presbyterian, had five of the ministry to inspect it, who could make nothing of it, but said that it might be printed, for in that I meddled not with their Dagon.

  35. Miss Harris:-- You have meddled successfully, and whether you are right or wrong in what you allege, I shall not be here to contest the question.

  36. I have indeed meddled where I was not wanted, and Richard Crawford--indeed--indeed she was not worthy of you!

  37. It is to save you from doing what you will repent to your dying day, that I have meddled in your affairs and placed myself in this false position.


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