twiddle

Example Sentences

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"It's July 2023. Building out the leadership of that operation today, so they can sit around and twiddle their thumbs for the next six months would be nuts," he said.

From Reuters • Jul. 18, 2023

“You know it’s going to end. So you can’t just sit around and twiddle your thumbs.”

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021

We have no more time to twiddle our collective thumbs.

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2020

Michael Connelly’s detective is never one to twiddle thumbs, of course.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2019

“I twiddle about with lines of verse now and then, but it’s only a hobby. In any case, thank you for indulging me.”

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs