twiddle

Example Sentences

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"I could either twiddle my thumbs or I could do something to help people and open," he said.

From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2023

We have no more time to twiddle our collective thumbs.

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2020

“We might not have qualified for September’s debate, but we won’t sit by and twiddle our thumbs,” Mr. Ryan wrote in a fund-raising appeal Tuesday.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2019

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