How to Use fiddle in a Sentence

fiddle

1 of 2 noun
  • Like many ficus plants, fiddle leaf figs do not like change.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Here’s how to grow and care for a fiddle leaf fig and keep it happy.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Carter is up for new artist of the year and fiddle player of the year.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The plant is named for its broad, thick, leathery leaves that are shaped like a fiddle.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2025
  • That song is screaming for a fiddle and a banjo.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2026
  • Look for a philodendron, palms, or a fiddle leaf fig plant.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Follow these steps to revive your fiddle leaf fig.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2026
  • There are elegies and aubades, fiddle tunes and field recordings.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • Carpenter sings about it on this track with a twang to her voice and a fiddle in the mix.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • People bring their beers to the shed and Wanda breaks out her fiddle.
    — Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
  • All my great uncles played fiddles and guitar in bars all over Austin.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
  • His father worked a farm and played banjo and fiddle at barn dances and other events.
    — New York Times, 12 July 2021
  • Try adding elements with visual height, like a floor lamp or fiddle leaf fig.
    — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The Man are sealing the honmoon with some fiddles.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • All baseball’s commish needs is a fiddle and book of matches.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Margulies came to fiddle with the menu, met eyes with Delaney, and sighed.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Randy Kershaw is on fiddle on the album.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Tombs, anvils, boats, villages, guns, portraits, fiddle toys.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Replant the fiddle leaf fig at the same level in its new pot, but make sure all roots are covered.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Add water to a container or dish and set the fiddle leaf fig pot inside of it.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Straight-grain, dark-walnut floors are paired with Taupe ripple fiddle-back sycamore walls.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2021
  • White settlers brought the fiddle from Europe.
    — Frank Langfitt, NPR, 16 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Swirling fiddle and guitars converge to make this fan-favorite track a hit contender.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But so too does fiddle — not violin, fiddle — and piano.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025

fiddle

2 of 2 verb
  • Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
  • Dabar said, fiddling with one of the gold rings on her fingers.
    — Jillian Keenan, Time, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Most riders stare stare straight ahead or fiddle with their cell phones.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Steer clear of new hookups and don't fiddle around with your banking.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 7 July 2019
  • Brazile fiddles with his rope and loop, ready for his next practice run.
    — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • From philodendrons and ferns to fiddle leaf figs, houseplants are all the rage these days.
    — Hollyanna McCollom, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2023
  • There, people fiddled with their kerosene hand warmers, trying to keep them lit.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • But he's also known to fiddle with the text up to the last possible moment.
    — Weijia Jiang, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • There is a palpable sense of denial to all this fiddling with the numbers.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Ring had notified him of an intruder fiddling with the lock on their front door.
    — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 16 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • His hands fiddle with the bottom of his shirt, exposing a soft belly.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 12 June 2022
  • Fed up with any and all notifications, but don’t want to fiddle with them?
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 7 Nov. 2018
  • Nobody was exactly fiddling, but there’s more than a faint whiff of carbon in the air.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • The kind that is controlled by an out-of-touch elite who fiddle and extort while the economy burns.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Nearly all of the barbecue recipes came from Lavine, fiddling in his home kitchen.
    — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • And the lid makes a satisfactory flick, like fiddling with a lighter.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
  • The 5-star running back takes a moment to fiddle with his two accessories.
    — David Wilson Diehards, ajc, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Right now fiddling with the hour hand twice a year defies logic and biology.
    — Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 12 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Hinges There is a good chance your baby will often fiddle around with their sunglasses.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • And there's something more disruptive about pulling out your phone and fiddling with your screen rather than taking some quick glances at your watch.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
  • 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
  • Some people want to fiddle with their anti-roll bars; the rest of us just want to slam the gas pedal and see what our graphics cards can do.
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2021
  • My husband fiddled with the telescope, sharpening the image in it.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 22 June 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

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