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How to use fidget in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb, noun

Fidget means to wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly. Example: “The class squirmed and fidgeted in the uncomfortable new chairs.”

Examples of fidget by meaning

verbTo wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.

  • Will you stop fucking about and fidgeting in my peripherals?1993, Mike Leigh, Naked, spoken by Johnny (David Thewlis)

verbTo cause to fidget; to make uneasy.

  • “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC...
  • The scurf which was thus removed from his person he laid on one side, till it gathered in such a heap as to fidget him.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 16

More sentences with fidget

  • The class squirmed and fidgeted in the uncomfortable new chairs.From the entry uncomfortable
  • She sat and fidgeted out of restlessness as she waited.From the entry restlessness
  • There are many tools to safely stim like chewelry, noise-canceling headphones, fidget spinners, putty, and gum.2021, Erin Garcia, The Case of Sensational Stims, page 7. From the entry chewelry
  • Between the shafts the bay mare tossed her head and fidgeted on the cobbles.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry shaft
  • His voice was deep and rich and somehow took the fidgets out of them.1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. From the entry fidgets
  • I was fidgeting a bit, because three dogs were sniffing at my ankles in an interested fashion.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35. From the entry kerb
  • All except little Johnny, who fussed and fidgeted with a typical three-year-old's impatience at such things, mindless of his mother's quiet shushings.2011, Janet Dailey, American Dreams, page 143. From the entry shushing
  • He was fidgeting, sweaty, and jittery.2004 Bruce Schneier qt. Diana Dean, Boston Globe (2004). From the entry hinky
  • Some are unable to appreciate the emotional and psychological benefits of fidgeting or stimming because the importance of having “quiet hands” was so deeply drilled into them.2022, Devon Price, chapter 3, in Michele Eniclerico, editor, Unmasking Autism, New York: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry stimming
  • It’s hard to say the precise moment when CBD, the voguish cannabis derivative, went from being a fidget spinner alternative for stoners to a mainstream panacea.2018 October 27, Alex Williams, “Why Is CBD Everywhere?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 May 2022. From the entry CBD
  • Dank meme communities love making fun of fidget spinners, especially because spinners are associated with autistic kids, a favorite target for mockery in “edgy” online spaces like 4chan and Reddit.2017, Jay Hathaway (25 May 2017), Are fidget spinners white supremacist now?, Daily Dot (retrieved 2017-11-09; archived from the original…. From the entry edgy
  • Then papa began to get very tired of Jones, and fidgeted and finally said, with jocular irony, that Jones had better stay all night, they could give him a shake-down.1910, Stephen Leacock, The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones. From the entry jocular

Meaning of fidget

  1. verb To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
  2. verb To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
  3. noun A nervous wriggling or twitching motion.

Full definition of fidget

Questions about fidget in a sentence

How do you use fidget in a sentence?
Fidget is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The class squirmed and fidgeted in the uncomfortable new chairs.”
What is a short sentence with fidget?
“He was fidgeting, sweaty, and jittery.”
What does fidget mean?
Fidget means to wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fidget (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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