How to Use dabbling in a Sentence

dabbling

noun

• True, this dabbling takes many forms and is far from being used across all marketing firms.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• One thing Cooper couldn’t abide was Richardson’s dabbling in drug sales.
  — Mark Obbie, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
• In contrast, dabbling and diving ducks had shown a 34% increase over that time frame.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2022
• Dana sprinkles in remarks about her past — her dabbling in satanism, for instance — that complicate our trust.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 3 June 2019
• Dabbling and diving ducks flock to Catahoula to feast on the seeds produced by the grasses as well as the grasses themselves.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• That initial dabbling didn’t come with Olympic aspirations.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
• More of the same – an emphasis on retention, drafting impact players and some dabbling in the free agent and trade markets.
  — Jim Owczarski, Cincinnati.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• West Virginia isn’t the only program dabbling in the overseas market for players.
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 27 June 2019
• But dabblings in more advanced forms of home improvement have been unequivocal failures.
  — Liz Raiss, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
• And in fact, its dabbling in the world of technologically advanced clothing goes back several years.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2023
• Perhaps in season four, the moms could take that advanced therapy talk foundation and add in some dabblings in postmodernist theory.
  — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
• Perhaps in season four, the moms could take that advanced therapy talk foundation and add in some dabblings in postmodernist theory.
  — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
• Our sources say for any kind of pour-over method (pour-over, French press, Chemex), a gooseneck kettle is what separates the serious from the dabbling.
  — Elizabeth Wallace, CNN Underscored, 6 Aug. 2020
• But Souza’s far-reaching discography goes well beyond that one LP, with dabblings in bossa nova and modern classical.
  — Robert Ham | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• The results of their carbon-fiber dabbling is yielding a widespread harvest of the lightest, strongest, most responsive all-mountain skis the industry has ever seen.
  — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2017
• Their mutual dabbling on dating apps after college was less about fulfilling romantic ambitions than having something to do.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2021
• His heroin dabbling had developed into a full-bore addiction, and the others weren’t having it, kicking him out during the sessions for their album Loose.
  — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2018
• In other words, if nothing bad happens (such as injury or death), and there's a potential for reward, then evolution may actually encourage such dabbling.
  — Jason Bittel, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2019
• Musk has always been tongue in cheek with his crypto dabbling, but his latest posts have sown confusion across the industry and revived the debate over whether the nascent asset class is a serious investment.
  — Anchalee Worrachate, Fortune, 18 May 2021
• These are mere dabblings, however, compared to the experience that awaited me at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street.
  — Michael Frank, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
• Russia’s wealthiest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, had been jailed in 2003 for refusing to cease his dabbling in politics.
  — Garry Kasparov, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• But legal work and diplomatic dabbling may not have given him sufficient expertise to guide a mercurial president’s foreign policy.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• Most of us would’ve taken that windfall and set off on a lifetime journey of maximum chillin’, with perhaps an occasional detour into public entrepreneurial dabbling.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
• Between all the candy consumption, dress up opportunities, mischief making, and dark side dabbling, the holiday is traceable to an ancient Celtic festival.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 24 June 2020
• Fans flock to Doctor Who for many reasons, including its charismatic leads, the time-traveling narrative device, and its playful dabbling in multiple genres.
  — Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
• During the Stones’ debauched ’70s heyday, Watts was relatively sober, but his dabbling in alcohol, heroin, and amphetamines became more of a habit by the early ’80s.
  — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2021
• Take in particular the Nelk Boys, bro-ey pranksters whose recent dabbling in Trumpy politics led them to an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2025