Idly fiddle with

Usage examples of twiddle.

All Foaly could do was twiddle his thumbs and wait for contact with the surface team.

Pompey and Metellus Nepos had utterly eclipsed him, had commandeered his fleets and left him to twiddle his thumbs in Tarsus.

So now he was qualified to sell used cars, dig ditches, twiddle his thumbs, or do as Sarah Lou Dickerson Grinolli Vizzard, a.

As I lay wondering over the matter I heard a shuffling step which I recognized, and, turning, saw Hans twiddling a new hat made of straw in his fingers.

Catholicism in its Sunday-best garb, twiddling the knobs of mechanism via the pineal, but he left a clockwork human for the remaining six days of the week, debiologized as well as desacralized and open to treatment as a mere bete machine within the developing industrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

So at one moment I would be twiddling with my fingers as on the frets of a viella, and the next I would be using my lips in the manner of playing a dulzaina, and the next I would be flutter-tonguing in the way a flutist blows his flute.

And here he sat, twiddling his thumbs with make-work yard projects, babysitting the sexiest woman alive.

Dorcas pegged her jockey cap on the head of a marble statue of the great local hero, Smuggler Jim Biggins, and jamming her red hair behind her ears, squared her shoulders and got down to the serious business of twiddling dials.

Sometimes he could be as still as cast bronze, as motionless as marble, forgetting even to blink, but more often than not, he flicked or twiddled his fingers for hours on end or jiggled his legs, or tapped his feet.

Maybury was hunched over, shoulders tense, her fingers flying over the lightboard, her bare toes twiddling in unconscious rhythm.

He twiddled the autozoom on his electrobinoculars, to flip the enhanced image back and forth between a wide-angle overview and tightly focused close-ups of individual plants.

Dull boomings from beyond: Oliver, naked, is kneeling before the television set, twiddling dials.

Sylla kicked the fix pedal, twiddled his calibrator and dropped the fist.

I twiddled my fan delicately toward the trees where the necessary facilities lurked, separated from the main house by an aesthetic distance and a screen of small white pines.

Seeing the feather, she made the most agitated movements of her head, then arched her back as I sat beside her and carefully twiddled the feather tip about her spot.