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
• Don’t fiddle with your bag in front of taxis, on public transport, or anywhere outside of the airport or station.
  — Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026
• Back to the opening sequence, anyway, in which Lê tunes his film’s rhythms while Ninh fiddles with his own sound equipment.
  — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 10 Aug. 2026
• 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
• 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
• The transformation switched the two fluids, reversed their clocks, and fiddled with the temperature in a particular way.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 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
• 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
• There are lot of things that will make the Bentley Torcal an interesting—even compelling—EV, but Bentley simply opted not to fiddle with something that runs counter to its mission.
  — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 27 Aug. 2026