twiddle

Example Sentences

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He first became familiar with them when he was sitting on a bus shortly after his release and saw people twiddling with smartphones.

From BBC

“I was twiddling my thumbs, thinking about the breakup that just happened a few weeks prior,” he said of a long stretch of waiting in the jury room that morning.

From Washington Post

But when making ice cream is this easy, a couple of hours of inactive thumb twiddling is a small price to pay.

From Salon

When Molly’s not smoking in the garage, she’s twiddling her thumbs, biding her time.

From New York Times

“The government sort of twiddled its thumbs until the very last moment,” Kang says.

From Science Magazine