dibble

Example Sentences

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Before I understood how to use my options properly, I used to dibble and dabble with my childhood favorite, Duncan Hines.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2024

He picked up an orange metal bar known as a dibble, made a small hole in the bare, orange dirt and put the tree in.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2020

The volunteers fanned out over the muddy ground, each pair armed with a dibble bar and a bucket of seedlings.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2020

But I personally like to dibble and dabble and help my teammates make plays, and at the same time make plays myself.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 14, 2015

"I'll not put," says Puritan Perdita, after demurely granting that "so it is"— 155 "I'll not put The dibble in earth to set one slip of them."

From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)