How to Use fiddle in a Sentence

fiddle

1 of 2 noun
Definition of fiddlenext
Synonyms for fiddlenext
  • Stover’s drums and Brown’s fiddle play to a tempo that matches the depth of Smith’s voice.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Margulies came to fiddle with the menu, met eyes with Delaney, and sighed.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Brigid Reedy, 22, plays the fiddle; Johnny Reedy, 17, the guitar.
    — Meg Bernhard, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But at the end of the day, what makes country music isn't a fiddle or a steel guitar.
    — Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022
  • A lot of the old fiddle songs — from waltzes to swing to slow lonesome songs — seem to encapsulate a voice for me.
    — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 30 June 2023
  • There are elegies and aubades, fiddle tunes and field recordings.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • His father worked a farm and played banjo and fiddle at barn dances and other events.
    — New York Times, 12 July 2021
  • But when the solo came up, Darrin just ran up, took the fiddle, and started playing.
    — Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
  • All my great uncles played fiddles and guitar in bars all over Austin.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
  • Here, with the group culled to a trio with just acoustic guitar, banjo and fiddle, this track is a dreamy country mix.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The verses sound very old school, the choruses sound very new school, but there’s old school fiddle, slide guitar and all of that.
    — Gary Graff, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Los Angeles Times Love, fiddle-leaf fig, a bustling plant store.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Straight-grain, dark-walnut floors are paired with Taupe ripple fiddle-back sycamore walls.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The couple first met in 2003, when Shires was playing fiddle in Billy Joe Shaver’s band and struck up a friendship.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024
  • On the road, met the love of his life, the talented Texas singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 9 Apr. 2023
  • For serious fiddle fans, this is the unmissable event of the late-summer.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • Brendan Gleeson breaks out a fiddle in the middle of the ceremony and Barry Keoghan dances a jig in the aisle.
    — Glenn Whippcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • All baseball’s commish needs is a fiddle and book of matches.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2022
  • And, our fiddle player — Brian, who’s very healthy — suffered a pinched nerve.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Try adding elements with visual height, like a floor lamp or fiddle leaf fig.
    — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Some of that will now happen regardless, but there’s still scope to fiddle with the optimum at the margins.
    — Trond Arne Undheim, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Charlotte really played these fans like a fiddle in taking her own sweet time to open a gift box.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Close by is Ripley Park, where pop Elias Disney, said to be a fine fiddle player, would play in band concerts in the early 1900s.
    — John Bordsen, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The group protests sneaking in before her fiddle player, Kristin Weber, speaks up.
    — Vulture, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Alabama still plays the tune in concert, with Megan Mullins Owen playing fiddle.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 5 Aug. 2022
  • In fact, buying a fiddle leaf fig for a client is what pushed her love of gardening into overdrive.
    — Danielle Broadway, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Fiddle leaf fig trees have long been the stars of social media with good reason: A healthy fiddle fig is straight-up gorgeous.
    — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The company’s Android smartphones often play third fiddle to the likes of Samsung and Google.
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 6 July 2023
  • Isbell brought along the 400 Unit for the tour -- except for his wife, fiddle player and vocalist Amanda Shires.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Swirling fiddle and guitars converge to make this fan-favorite track a hit contender.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2023
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fiddle

2 of 2 verb
  • Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
  • If Nero fiddled while Rome burned, maybe the rest of us can just watch movies while the world is in flames.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Dabar said, fiddling with one of the gold rings on her fingers.
    — Jillian Keenan, Time, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Steer clear of new hookups and don't fiddle around with your banking.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 7 July 2019
  • Why fiddle with a good thing, a thing that happens to be one of the most popular sports in the world?
    — New York Times, 24 July 2021
  • This means there'll be no need to fiddle with cards or apps to unlock the charger.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 9 Mar. 2022
  • On the far sideline, a trio of game-day staffers fiddled with their sound equipment.
    — David Murphy, Philly.com, 1 May 2018
  • While living in Wyoming, Ohio, a fiddling group that played Irish jigs came to visit the kids’ school.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Brazile fiddles with his rope and loop, ready for his next practice run.
    — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
  • News footage showed the man with the flag, holding onto the enormous red crane, at times fiddling with a rope.
    — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Beard credits the recipe to his Chinese cook, and the people at King Arthur flour fiddled with it a bit, too.
    — Jan Uebelherr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2018
  • Now her legacy is doomed to be far worse: the leader who fiddled while Hong Kong burned.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 6 Sep. 2019
  • But he's also known to fiddle with the text up to the last possible moment.
    — Weijia Jiang, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Was the President of Argentina fiddling with the light switches next to the bed?
    — Nicola Brady, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2020
  • From philodendrons and ferns to fiddle leaf figs, houseplants are all the rage these days.
    — Hollyanna McCollom, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Most riders stare stare straight ahead or fiddle with their cell phones.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 11 Jan. 2020
  • There was no fiddling around, pressing on the sun, then the foreground, then the sun again to get a color balance that looked true to life.
    — Hanna Howard, Teen Vogue, 21 Sep. 2018
  • After a few days of fiddling, Robinson got the code going.
    — Meredith Broussard, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • There is a palpable sense of denial to all this fiddling with the numbers.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Chor Charoenying fiddled with the shin guards tucked inside her yellow socks, her eyes still locked on the grass.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 11 June 2019
  • The Bengals can fiddle with the orange and white Creamsicle look.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Nearly all of the barbecue recipes came from Lavine, fiddling in his home kitchen.
    — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The kind that is controlled by an out-of-touch elite who fiddle and extort while the economy burns.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
  • And the lid makes a satisfactory flick, like fiddling with a lighter.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
  • There are no zippers to fiddle with; the bag expands as pressure from the contents pop the magnets hidden in the side.
    — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • Two bored sales folk fiddle their phones in the back, the entire tableau resembling a lost work by Samuel Beckett.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Nobody was exactly fiddling, but there’s more than a faint whiff of carbon in the air.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Don’t let the monsters hear us.’’ Trailing behind them, Glover fiddles on his iPhone.
    — Travis M. Andrews, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2018
  • The pub of course is the warm heart of the community, with fiddlers fiddling while customers enjoy a Guinness (Babycham for the ladies) and sometimes dance a jig.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
  • For Buffett, escapism was not merely something fun, some fiddling flight of fancy that can be taken up or discarded at will.
    — Drew M. Dalton, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2023

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