How to Use futz in a Sentence

futz

verb
  • No xenon to futz with, or wings to flap, or rotors to spin.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 2019-07-04
  • The band occasionally stopped futzing around to fine-tune the song.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 2019-08-29
  • Kawhi Leonard’s basketball prime is no time to futz around with the dream of an Aldridge upgrade.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 2017-10-16
  • But futzing with all your clocks is so annoying (well, not all, cell phones generally handle this quite well on their own).
    — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 2017-11-01
  • Mann isn’t a doctrinaire reviser of his previous work, someone who simply likes to futz.
    — James Wolcott, VanityFair.com, 2017-05-15
  • For instance, bicyclists could change songs while peddling by rubbing their arms instead of futzing with their smartphones.
    — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 2017-09-25
  • Uber is a company filled with over-optimizers, who will continue to futz with prices and hope to find equilibrium.
    — Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg.com, 2017-05-19
  • Peterson is futzing with the settings on another Xbox Kinect.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 2018-06-21
  • Why not focus on areas of clear need, rather than futzing around with one of the NFL’s best players on a unit that has carried the team?
    — Greg Moore, azcentral, 2018-04-03
  • Nobody who futzed around so often and in so many ways with the idea of free will, or who cared so profoundly about the dead, could be described as a fatalist, or a quietist, or resigned.
    — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 2019-06-13
  • Chandler had been futzing with his truck for the better part of a decade, gradually adding larger tires, higher lifts, and four-wheel steering to his growing behemoth.
    — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 2017-11-03
  • Videogames and cards are popular, and some players pass the time before games by futzing with the USA Today crossword puzzle.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 2017-10-06
  • From there, the worms can unleash a slurry of proteins and chemicals that futz with the ant’s core physiology, likely impacting their host’s hormones, immune system, and genes.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 2021-05-18
  • The hospitality and restaurant industry has been futzing around with our olfactory memories in the name of experience-making for a few years now.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 2018-04-10
  • The Alabama Democratic Party — the formal entity, not Democrats generally — is a joke, and the national party is sick of its futzing around.
    — al, 2019-08-16
  • Projecting the effect of sea-level rise on a specific location typically involves recondite computer models and calculations; Burrito Justice was just a fascinated hobbyist, futzing around on his laptop in his backyard.
    — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 2017-04-19

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