What is "twiddling"

Usage examples of "twiddling".

And he too left, twiddling his black minihedron between two fingers and humming quietly to himself.

That's my lower deck vision you're twiddling with now, and I'd very much like to have it—Thank you!

She pulled a toolkit from another pocket and opened it, twiddling her fingers.

Lieutenant Rhodri Eagles remarked dryly, twiddling his thumbs where he had stretched out a long body in one of the comformable chairs in the Talents' lounge aboard the Constellation-class ship.

Wansor said, twiddling his fin­gers in distress, blinking his clouded eyes.

Wansor asked, twiddling his fingers as the tension in the room increased.

The equivalent, probably, of another kid scuffing his shoes or twiddling his own ear in embarrassment.

I hunkered beside him, watching him lift a flap of skin and shove the big pin through, then hold the flap in one hand, twiddling the knob at the needle head idly as he waited for the thin trickle of blood to dry up.

And when he gets up, he has absolutely nothing to look forward to besides sitting at the huffduff console for eight or twelve hours at a stretch, watching the breath come out of his mouth, twiddling the antenna, listening to--nothing!

He is expecting to see an aquiline SS officer in a black uniform, jackboots, death's-head insignia, and riding crop, perhaps twiddling a pair of thumbscrews in his black leather gloves.

That’s the trouble,” Howl said, restlessly twiddling an onion ring on one finger.

Harry,” said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.

He’d be left chained to his desk, twiddling his thumbs for the next three days while praying for Seyss to show himself and trip an alarm.

And there you’ll wait, making small talk, twiddling your thumbs, picking your I-talian nose for all we care, until you hear my signal.