noodle

Example Sentences

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A lawyer by training, he seems to function primarily by breaking any challenge into small pieces to be noodled over at tedious length one by one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

There was kind of a lot of “Could you do a Season 4?” and we noodled around with the prison idea for a long time.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2019

Dunn is less interested in the shiny, sponsored giant model worlds built for commercial gain than he is in the tiny cottage industries noodled over by obsessives.

From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2018

At first our voices wavered, our raised arms noodled, and our overall mien lacked sternness.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2016

At midday Michael and Charley had always eaten their lunches in the shelter where George Woods, Watty, and Cash Wilson ate theirs and noodled their opal.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah