How to Use fidget with in a Sentence

fidget with

verb
  • You’re meant to hold them, fidget with them, show them off.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Thomas fidgeted with his thumbs.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Worried your little one will misplace the crystal beauts by fidgeting with them too much?
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 4 May 2026
  • Noin adjusted her black curly hair and fidgeted with a gold medallion necklace.
    — Eden Laase, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • For this group, no scrap of fabric or old object is trash; everything can be turned into something for patients to fidget with.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Unlike Adam, Edelman will talk your ear off, his big brown eyes bouncing off the walls as his hands fidget with a napkin.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Collins, who is lanky with blond hair and blue eyes, spent much of an interview with NPR fidgeting with his hands.
    — Frank Langfitt, NPR, 23 Dec. 2025
  • In the police vehicle, Ramirez tried to sit up and fidgeted with her handcuffs, breathing heavily, footage shows.
    — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Sánchez stood on the mound and finally cracked a smile and fidgeted with the bill of his cap after a nearly minute-long standing ovation from 40,453 Phillies fans.
    — CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • That broad appeal is part of why NeeDohs have crossed over from a kids’ aisle novelty into a wider audience of teens, students and adults looking for something to fidget with at a desk or during stressful moments.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 6 May 2026
  • Clicking into a trend Fidget clickers are a type of tactile tool, sometimes with an auditory component, that people press, click or fidget with to help regulate their emotions or concentrate on tasks.
    — Jennifer Liu valentina Duarte, CNBC, 14 June 2026
  • Before the holders, my bulk freezing routine consisted of me trying my best to make the bags stand up on their own, folding down the tops to avoid getting meat and other ick everywhere, and fidgeting with portions to get food in without spilling all over the place.
    — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Xavier Tyson, 15, fidgeted with his hands as Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Richard Hersch issued his ruling.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026
  • Crouched down, Thaliya Martinez fidgeted with her camera lens, preparing for a day of photographing aircraft at Chicago’s annual Air & Water Show.
    — William Tong, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Tasked specifically with filming Jackie Kennedy, Maysles did that job and more, capturing telling moments—the future first lady nervously fidgeting with her white gloves, for example—that traditionalists felt should have remained private.
    — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026
  • BunMo Beechwood Infinity Cube Fidget Toy This fidget cube is incredibly satisfying to, well, fidget with!
    — Anja Webb, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The four awkwardly smiled into the camera and fidgeted with their hands for 63 seconds before Wiseman grabbed the microphone to ask NASA administrator Jared Isaacman whether the call dropped.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026

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