How to Use fiddle with in a Sentence

fiddle with

verb
  • No fiddling with finicky pastry crusts when this dump cake is on the lineup.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Younger kids can fiddle with the toy to keep their hands busy and explore sensory play.
    — Anja Webb, Parents, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Vega was fiddling with a plate of rice balls when Rauls took a chair adjacent to the bed.
    — Rick Cantu, Austin American Statesman, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Check out the brand and fiddle with the 3D guitar builder tool on Shark's site.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Over the years, Costco has fiddled with the drinks and condiments to maintain the price.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The aircon buttons on the dash can also be made to disappear when you're done fiddling with them.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At 226 pages, the book reads like a high school student fiddling with the margin sizes to meet their page count.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • Cosmo aims to turn time spent doom-scrolling or fiddling with your phone into something more productive.
    — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Want to fiddle with the temperature?
    — Patrick George, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
  • To be sure, Congress has fiddled with the deduction from time to time, especially in recent years.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The result is a minimalist, and amusing, website, with models who move around, sit on handmade chairs, fiddle with their hair, and play around with the clothes.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Once you’re done cleaning, this nifty vacuum empties debris into its base, and that means no fiddling with a bag or canister after every use.
    — Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The ongoing injuries have left Musselman to continue fiddling with his lineup in search of answers.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The other strong selling point is that the inexperienced videographer doesn't have to fiddle with a load of settings before recording.
    — David Szondy may 09, New Atlas, 9 May 2026
  • Upstairs, Roy and his coterie were huddled around a laptop, fiddling with Cluely’s interface.
    — Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The individual, their face covered in a ski mask, appears to fiddle with the camera with a gloved hand before turning away to look for something to obscure the lens.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The individual, their face covered in a ski mask, appears to fiddle with the camera with a gloved hand before turning away to look for something to obscure the lens.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • These rising rates can force Hoosiers like Emerson Harper to carve up the household budget and fiddle with the thermostat.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Then, as if fiddling with the knob on an FM radio, the neural network would adjust the radio’s settings to best fit the conditions of the current pass.
    — Sven Bilén, IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2020
  • During the delay in filming, Hexum reportedly became anxious and started fiddling with the gun.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • After activity guide Ella Daniels fiddled with the laptop connected to the machine, a zap.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 19 Feb. 2026
  • After activity guide Ella Daniels fiddled with the laptop connected to the machine, a zap.
    — Jessica Ma, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Throughout American history, politicians have fiddled with electoral rules in the hope of changing election outcomes.
    — David L. Leal, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2018
  • Several dozen people sat at folding tables facing Hageman’s lectern; a woman in the row ahead of me fiddled with military action figures.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • During the third quarter, the stadium emptied; on the sideline, Belichick looked befuddled, constantly fiddling with his headset.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The league will launch three new stats during the 2025-26 season based on its player tracking data that could increase access to the information teams have been fiddling with for years.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Denver would like to have a fully healthy rotation eventually, and when that time comes, fiddling with lineup combinations that intermingle starters and bench players will be a crucial component of playoff prep.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • To what degree are documentary filmmakers tempted to fiddle with reality while ostensibly presenting a clear and unadulterated image of it?
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Max Weinberg sat at his set, thwacking his floor tom, while Lahav fiddled with his dials, stalked into the studio to unplug, replug, and then just physically move the microphone closer to the set, then to the side, and then farther away.
    — Peter Ames Carlin, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Adamala’s team fiddled with their cellular brew, switching genes in and out and adjusting concentrations of various molecules, to get the crucial information-carrying and protein-making genetic systems to jibe.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 1 July 2026

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