How to Use fidgety in a Sentence

fidgety

adjective

• I get too fidgety to sit after a few minutes in a waiting room.
• He grew more fidgety with each passing hour.
• Barrie’s chaste romance with Sylvia will leave younger ones fidgety.
  — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
• The music is fidgety and full of harmonic shifts, run through with two-against-three rhythms.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
• Even Jason notices the guests are fidgety.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2026
• Or a fidgety toddler rolling around on a banquette and playing with his or her plate of plain spaghetti?
  — Cnt Editors, CNT, 21 Sep. 2017
• Those specs are fidgety little things to pin down, especially when trying to buy used equipment.
  — David Kender, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
• For the smaller kids who may become fidgety before a baseball game is over, a new playground will be installed near the field.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2019
• Or, says Roberts, to finally get a good look at the brain activity of his often fidgety patients.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
• Taller players, for example, run with longer, antelope-like strides, whereas the legs of shorter players are more fidgety.
  — John Robertson, Ars Technica, 10 June 2017
• On one recent day, at a Juárez migrant shelter, two Honduran women fed their fidgety toddlers.
  — Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2021
• But more than anything, where Wentz looked fidgety and hesitant in the pocket, Hurts looked comfortable and poised.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2020
• But kids with Down syndrome also have sensory issues or feel fidgety, and many are unable to wear the mask for those or other reasons.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 24 Apr. 2022
• For example, if your student is fidgety, stack books to make their workplace a standing desk, or give them a ball of Play-Doh to kneed out of sight.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2020
• Certainly not young folks, which explains why a paltry 7 percent of fidgety youth bother tuning in at all, putting it in line with rodeo viewership.
  — Ari David Blaff, National Review, 11 July 2021
• The Puma cruises happily at rapid highway speeds, but the combination of road noise and a fidgety ride makes longer journeys wearing.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 12 May 2021
• At DreamMore, the staff scrambled to distract the adults with no backup plans and the fidgety children whose parents had packed swim trunks but not snowsuits.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• With the clocks moved forward an hour and daylight stretching past 12 hours, the annual phenomenon has arrived in full, fidgety force.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• With his shoulder over a barrier, Leung stood on a stool and held an umbrella with one hand as his fidgety pianist fingers tapped on the barrier.
  — CNN, 17 June 2021
• Meanwhile, her aides, sitting in a vehicle on the Sky Harbor tarmac became fidgety, the report says.
  — Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 14 June 2018
• Cantering around them is a fidgety emcee in her fifties, face caked with makeup, corralling them in front of the cameras for a few bland questions about shooting in Kinmen.
  — Jordan Riefe, Orange County Register, 22 May 2017
• To space out fidgety kindergarteners, Kylie Schipper is eschewing group desks, which would place students in close quarters in little pods of six.
  — Lacey Russell, Madeleine Stix, CNN, 14 Aug. 2020
• Friendless, furious and fidgety; something tells me Neymar isn't enjoying his Paris sojourn.
  — SI.com, 10 June 2019
• Yet on April 1 hundreds of fidgety kids and their dutiful parents withstood spring showers to attend the grand opening of the world’s newest Legoland.
  — Chris Anstey, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2017
• Jenny Dearborn remembers as a kid in the 1980s being told to leave class and run laps around her school to burn off her excess, fidgety energy.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 2 July 2019
• Take unlikely inspiration from the animal kingdom with head-bobbing choreography meant to evoke the fidgety movements of a pack of flamingos.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2019
• In the carnivorous world of videogames, a lot of smart people spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to appeal to a market consisting mainly of a lot of fidgety, fickle adolescent boys.
  — Burr Snider, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1994
• By contrast, Evans is steely, fidgety, obviously unhappy and, apparently as the spoiled child of wealthy parents, determined to get her way.
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2017
• Republicans were fidgety and chatty on their side of the aisle, while Democrats appeared more serious and definitely not as talkative with their neighbors.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2020
• The temptation is to toss one's fidgety hands in the air and mutter that these debts belong not to us individual Americans but to a faceless federal government.
  — Chicago Tribune Editorial Board July 20, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021