Fiddled (with thumbs)

Usage examples of twiddled.

Nancia twiddled with her sensor magnification and focus until she could make out the details.

The high-priest appeared to consider that, when Archie twiddled, it was his intention to bid in hundreds, whereas in fact Archie had meant to signify that he raised the previous bid by just one dollar.

The hand that had twiddled so often and so bravely lay inert beside his trouser-leg, twitching feebly.

Jamie twiddled the quill tantalizingly, and Adso made an abortive swipe at it with one paw.

I said, squinting through the eyepiece as I twiddled the focusing knob, "those blood groups are to do with antibodies-little odd-shaped things on the surfaces of blood cells.

He fought to push them out of his mind as he twiddled the knobs to optimize the radar presentation and checked the computer readouts.

The spider saw Betsy, too, for it reared up, twiddled its pedipalps with conspicuous insolence, and emitted a crackling purr.

He twiddled the controls and the sky outside the flyer turned from cobalt to star-spangled black.