How to Use fiddle in a Sentence

fiddle

1 of 2 noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024