fusses

Example Sentences

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It fusses over your toast, insisting that the flour it comes from has no more than 75 insect fragments and one rodent hair per 50 grams.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2022

She fusses about his health and his attitude, remarking to her son that at least he had given up on his crazy earlier plan:

From Salon • Jul. 24, 2021

This production fusses instead with digital tools, and meaning evaporates.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2021

Ba's foster mum fusses in the background, making lunch and occasionally interjecting to clarify or add some detail to his account of his journey here from Vietnam.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2020

Three times I stop paddling when Virginia fusses to be fed.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone