Sentence examples similar to in aimlessly fiddling from inspiring English sources

At home, my father spent lots of time in our basement fiddling with stuff.

"Fiddling while Rome burns" is a reference to the emperor Nero playing his lyre while the city went up in flames in the great fire of 64CE (not, as is now often assumed, "fiddling" in the modern sense of fussing aimlessly).

I watched as all the senior execs in the room started fiddling with their BlackBerries.

Make sure in your head that you really want to stop fiddling.

In 1970 he was still fiddling.

Some, including their whip in the House, were caught fiddling with their BlackBerrys.

Electric shock may occur when plugged in and when you're fiddling with it.

Emma Thompson also weighed in on their league explaining, "I'm not fiddling about with myself.

Indeed, the Labour Party spent 18 years in opposition damning the Tories for fiddling the figures.

Especially in Dubai, women are constantly buying and fiddling with makeup.

Fiddling with her jewelry in an absent-minded way, Das mused, "What happened to patience?