How to Use piddle in a Sentence

piddle

verb

• Dean, of course, is terrified of heights and tries to act all manly while piddling in his pull ups.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 19 June 2017
• What may be massive to one person may be piddling to another.
  — Brenda Looper, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
• Amid piddling economic growth, central bankers around the world slashed interest rates.
  — Matt Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2018
• But his mistakes Sunday may not have looked so glaring if promising drives weren’t piddled away into field goals.
  — Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 20 Sep. 2017
• An electric sedan whose upright battery ate into trunk space and provided a piddling 80-mile range.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2021
• But compared to the influencer set or even the average high school student, his social media presence is piddling.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 1 Mar. 2020
• But this is not such a piddling gift, according to a new paper, which proposes that these electrons react with the moon’s surface to create water.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• Once March arrives, the sports stags wind down, everybody's a hoops expert and the neighbor that used to piddle in his yard returns from hibernation.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• And piddling battery life is another perennial complaint with smartwatches.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 31 July 2023
• Canoo’s piddling 4,500 EV van order means nothing if the company can’t deliver.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2023
• And the company’s assets—its cars, their parts, and its intellectual property—may be too piddling to attract another firm to take up the mantle of service and repair.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 June 2024
• The piddling contributions were a protest of a campus culture that, in the eyes of critics, had restricted political speech while giving free rein to anti-Semitism.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
• Fiber offers a piddling two calories because enzymes in the human digestive tract have great difficulty chopping it up into smaller molecules.
  — Rob Dunn, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2013
• Every other twenty-first-century geopolitical trend will look piddling by comparison.
  — Kevin Drum, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
• There’s even a humbling sequence set in the real Carrara, where, against the quarry’s raw splendor, the mighty modern excavators look as piddling as Hot Wheels on the basement stairs.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
• The resulting thrust is piddling compared to traditional engines, and that’s OK—the spacecraft is floating through the vacuum of space, so the shower of ions accelerate the aircraft bit by bit.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 July 2019
• To them, anything that smacks of architectural excess in a public building looks like a waste of money, even if the sums are piddling compared to the cost of invisible features like truck ramps, security systems, and ventilation.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 June 2026
• And when today’s CAPE is highly elevated, gains over the next decade tend to be piddling, a pattern that repeats itself with remarkable consistency.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
• The idea of going after a former president, with all the political consequences involved, on such a piddling charge was so self-evidently absurd that no minimally self-respecting prosecutor would do it.
  — The Editors, National Review, 31 Mar. 2023
• Yet, despite conveying huge proportionality, the place utilizes space precisely, including with drains embedded in exact places to catch condensation water piddling out of train air conditioners.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023