fiddle
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She said he was loved by friends, talented in music and sport, having played the fiddle, accordion and enjoyed judo, chess and sea scouts.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Megan Romer likes to spend her free time sewing costumes for school plays, picking blackberries in her backyard in rural Cayuga County, N.Y., and watching her partner play the fiddle in folk bands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Anytime Dunk is walking through the village, we should hear a fiddle player playing somewhere,’” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
The company’s main generator of revenue, electric vehicles, often plays second fiddle.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
The band consisted of a fiddle, drum and cornet.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
As he fiddles with his cap, I suggest that this very building is in fact a re-branded model of a youth club.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The Administration seems determined to avoid the endless fiddles that torpedoed the frigate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
Bro-country hitmaker Jason Aldean debuted in 2005 with “Hicktown,” a single that paired screaming fiddles with distortion-drenched guitars to celebrate the ways single-stoplight towns make their own fun.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
Ludwig Göransson’s phenomenal score backs Coogler up, layering fiddles over doom metal as if they were meant to harmonize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
Davos could hear pipes and fiddles playing, not far away.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
For years, the egg has ruled the breakfast table like a sun god—worshipped, aestheticized, endlessly fiddled with by men in starched aprons and women with ring lights.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
Sitting at a park picnic table in Crystal City, Virginia, the morning light casting shadows over his face, Wall fiddled with the strap on his backpack.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025
Family members and friends fiddled with the placards they wore baring the brothers’ photographs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
As the umpires fiddled with their lightmeters, an interruption was so predictable that Sri Lanka promoted Prabath Jayasuriya to number four to see them to the delay.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024
Ob was never embarrassed about being a disabled navy man who fiddled with whirligigs all day long, and I never was embarrassed about being a kid who’d been passed around for years.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
The two suspected killers, Weldon Boyd and Bradley Williams, sat fiddling with their phones on a trailer hitched to Boyd’s white Ram TRX.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Neville is skeptical that businesses will be fiddling around with AI products to create their own cybersecurity.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
She pauses, fiddling with her red-framed reading glasses.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
The ongoing injuries have left Musselman to continue fiddling with his lineup in search of answers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026
As she wheels me out to the lobby, I clasp my hands in my lap, fiddling nervously.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Musical Instruments - Introductory
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