How to Use meddle in a Sentence

meddle

verb
  • Besides, Nile has no right to meddle with her process.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Others have urged him to stop meddling with allies.
    — Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • But things turned sour when the two were meddling around with each other’s finances.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Beyond the precincts of fiction, of course, the world has a way of meddling with such bonds.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Not even Dancing with the Stars' votes are safe from meddling.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Some students call them snitches or see them as meddling do-gooders.
    — Martha Irvine, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2018
  • And as with any other states’ rights, Congress should not meddle at all.
    — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But hackers wouldn’t have to shut down freezers to meddle with the vaccine cold chain.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The next one wasn’t as nice — another short stay, this time with a meddling landlord.
    — Haley Mlotek, Curbed, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The league has enough meddling owners and microphone fiends.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Why meddle in politics this way and alienate half of the country?
    — Jerry Bowyer, National Review, 5 May 2021
  • Harris said that neither of the stars’ teams attempted to meddle with it.
    — Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • However, life soon started meddling in her plans.
    — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 8 May 2026
  • But that doesn’t mean Erdogan is done meddling with the central bank.
    — Ryan Hogg, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Nobody is asking Ross to meddle.
    — Barry Jackson updated October 7, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Meet the next generation of meddling kids.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Sinatra used his influence to meddle with the film's casting.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2022
  • For all of the accusations of meddling, Mara is the owner of the team.
    — Dan Duggan, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • And so began Stone’s role in the other matter he has been accused of meddling in.
    — Andrew Beaton and Shelby Holliday, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2019
  • But the department was not aware of any safety threats or efforts to meddle with voters’ rights.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Mr Putin has told Western powers not to meddle in his backyard.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2020
  • All hosts have said that the narrative of Russian-meddling in the election is wrong.
    — Caroline Lester, The New Republic, 14 May 2018
  • Chinese leaders have tried to tackle the problem by meddling with the markets.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Which hopefully means Leitão isn’t as quick to meddle and will allow Muzzi to do his job.
    — Mike Bianchi, Pro Soccer USA, 9 June 2019
  • The source said the owners aren’t meddling in routine day-to-day operations.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The father of a family of four quarreling siblings tries to meddle in their lives.
    — Shalini Dore, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The old man stood his ground and told them to not be disrespectful and to not meddle in things that were past their understanding.
    — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 31 Oct. 2015
  • There’s a perception that Auburn boosters meddle with the program.
    — al, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Putin has long rejected claims that the Kremlin had anything to do with meddling in last year’s elections.
    — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Now that Musk is taking Twitter private, the board won’t be able to meddle with his vision.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2022

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