How to use fiddle in a sentence

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• The second fiddle on that tune is almost as hard as the first fiddle.From the entry second fiddle
• I've been second fiddle in that orchestra for ten years now.From the entry second fiddle
• I need to fiddle with the strings on my violin. It doesn't sound in tune.From the entry in tune
• If you fiddle with the controls, you might be able to get a better TV picture.From the entry fiddle with
• He can't possibly afford that house on his salary. He must be on the fiddle.From the entry on the fiddle
• The fiddle break was amazing; it was a pity the singer came back in on the wrong note.From the entry break
• When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like this, it's a violin.From the entry violin
• O'Neil had been first fiddle in the band for years.From the entry first fiddle
• O'Neil played a lively first fiddle.From the entry first fiddle
• Perhaps this will teach McAdams once and for all: Girl, stop playing second fiddle to time-traveling men.2016 November 7, Heather Schwedel, “Let Rachel McAdams Time-travel!”, in Slate, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2017. From the entry ensorcell
• She famously wrote a book where a redhead plays second fiddle to a magical Englishman.2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor)…. From the entry englishman
• Belloc fiddled with his glove, flicking past icons and scrolling through information on his hand and arm.2012, J. L. Hilton, Stellarnet Prince, page 176. From the entry braingasm
• There are fiddles and squeezeboxes and ugly sticks and sometimes even drums to make the music.2010, Penny Draper, “Bella”, in Laura Peetoom, editor, A Terrible Roar of Water (Disaster Strikes; 5), Regina, Sask.: Coteau Books, →ISBN…. From the entry ugly stick
• It also makes for a lot of high-precision work in the fiddle yard.2009, Iain Rice, Shelf Layouts for Model Railroads, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry fiddle yard
• There is also a corresponding ambiguous use of the term slått or fiddle tune.2007 [1988], Tellef Kvifte, On Variability in the Performance of Hardingfele Tunes - and Paradigms in Ethnomusicological Research, Taragot…. From the entry slått
• Such a halt would enhance any model railway, perhaps leading to a fiddle yard on the right.1999, Alan Postlethwaite, Odd corners of the Southern: from the days of steam, page 27. From the entry fiddle yard
• Away with him, tush and fiddle faddle to such a pamby nimble-grimble!1967 January 26, Sten Overlach, “Le Dauphin”, in Sandy Gage, editor, McGill Daily, volume 56, number 67, Montreal, Que.: Students’ Society…. From the entry pamby
• With a toot on the flute and a twiddle on the fiddle, O!1939, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume CXXVI, page 76. From the entry twiddle
• Fiddles instead of drums and girls, very pretty girls, Ewing, in drawingrooms.1931, Joseph Hergesheimer, The Limestone Tree, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, pages 269 and 282, 311, and 368. From the entry drawingroom
• A comical fellow hopped down from a stump and chinned his fiddle while Prince Chang stared.1925, Arthur Bowie Chrisman, “Four Generals”, in Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children, New York: E.P. Dutton, published 1968…. From the entry chin
• “I don’t know what’s got into you!” She fiddled with her bouffant, almost as if she was nervous.2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry bouffant
• As technology got better, he'd go back and fiddle with them, convinced he could clean them up enough for release.2007, Sheryl J. Anderson, Killer Riff, page 49. From the entry fiddle with
• There’s no sign of the famous drinking-straw he carries to fiddle with, but it’s probably as well that he doesn’t smoke.2006 January 6, Gerard Gilbert, “The feast of Stephen”, in Arts & Books Review (The Independent), page 2. From the entry drinking-straw
• Hardingfele: “Hardanger fiddle.” A traditional Norwegian folk instrument, resembling a violin, with four bowed strings and four sympathetic strings.2002 June 30, Frederick K. Smith, Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, pages…. From the entry slått
• An assortment of sidemen (and sidegirls) provide a varied accompaniment on mouth-harp, dulcimer, fiddle, and, of course, guitar.1964, LSR - Issues 28-30, page 27. From the entry sidegirl
• Fol-de-rol and fiddle dee dee and fiddley faddley foddle.1957, Richard Rodgers, Cinderella. From the entry fol-de-rol
• It was a common scene for one of the older boys to play the fiddle while the others toe danced.1955, Louis Salisbury Leatham, The Letham or Leatham family book of remembrance. From the entry toe dance
• For this occasion there were gathered together some five hundred musicians who played on fifes, fiddles, trumps, trombones, and pommers.1936, Ray Giles, «Here Comes the Band!», New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 176. From the entry pommer
• Garofalo, the second fiddle, is black, beady-eyed and pot-bellied.1923 November, Aldous Huxley, chapter XIII, in Antic Hay, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 192. From the entry electrolier
• History has it that Nero fiddled while Rome burned: Mr.1915 June 17, The People, Sydney, page 1, column 4. From the entry stick a pin there

Meaning of fiddle

1. noun A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
2. noun Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
3. noun A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.

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Questions about fiddle in a sentence

How do you use fiddle in a sentence?

Fiddle is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.”

What is a short sentence with fiddle?

“Done at a fiddle.”

What does fiddle mean?

Fiddle means a violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).