fiddling with

If he keeps fiddling with the clock, he is sure to put it out of order.

He tore his gaze away from her with difficulty, looking down at his hands, and fiddling with the broken twigs.

He keeps fiddling with the dials on the radio, he is sure to put it out of order.

Picking up the device, the female western lowland gorilla called Bawang, began to examine it, even fiddling with the buttons.

She took my kids into the garden and, on returning, found me fiddling with her CD player.

The only reason you're fiddling with the other two settings is to compensate for your fast shutter needs.

While you're in there fiddling with the databases, you may as well create the tables that Blahg will use in the beginning.

Some days later, she was surprised to find that girls always fiddling with the hands of a small crane, if passed, never stop.

He had been fiddling with a new Polaroid camera, which prompted the obvious question: Was he a photographer too?

No amount of fiddling with your current career is going to make you happy.

Every one fiddling with books and fighting for getting higher education are familiar with the word essay.

Teams on projects the company is merely 'fiddling with, ' he says, will get 'naturally smaller as people get plucked off. '

You want to walk barefoot on the warm floors. You want to read in bed, with lighting that works without fiddling with a thousand buttons.

Mr Sarkozy bores easily, tapping his feet, twitching or fiddling with his mobile phone when others speak.

South Korea now serves a faithful running dog for the United States, while fiddling with his neighbors like China and Japan.

Fiddling with the little brushes, fine powders and sticky tape can test the patience of the most fastidious crime-scene investigator.

I have a hunch, however, that I might be able to improve Psyco's speed by fiddling with some algorithm details.

We have changed the balance since the WWI build and will be fiddling with the balance this coming week for sure.

eg. He had been fiddling with a new Polaroid camera.

A more likely intervention would be some fiddling with court pace.

rather than fiddling with font sizes or checking email, you are encouraged to get on with your writing.

I spent a good part of two days fiddling with noise values, specular values, reflections etc.

rather than fiddling with font sizes or checking e-mail, you are encouraged to get on with your writing.

Fiddling with any of those factors will change the magnitude.

But reading experts question whether fiddling with the parameters of books ultimately degrades the act of reading.

Fiddling with your GPS can create a significant distraction if you find that it's given you the wrong information.

Secondly, the weight and size it to prevent them from fiddling with it.

At his desk Sir Lindsay appears nervous, fiddling with his glasses and brushing back his hair.

Correct redirection when user logs out and wants to register as a student. Some fiddling with login screens etc.

By fiddling with currencies, however, the adjustments needed are being deflected.

In Kansas City, Missouri, a young commercial artist was fiddling with animation.

You will almost certainly end up with something which almost works, which you will then spend hours fiddling with to get it going.

One practical problem you might run into while fiddling with multiple browsers is window clutter.

After 20 minutes of fiddling with the security settings for my Wi-Fi base station, iTunes finally recognized Remote.

That is, China may be busy fiddling with clean-coal technology, but that doesn't mean the country is going to widely deploy the technology.

Yes, a limited league can be created easily, but there's much more fun in refining it, adding rules, fiddling with dates and so on.

In this sense, we are nowhere near a 'complete' solution which will not need fiddling with again.

Xenophobic fiddling with the share register helps nobody.

Democrats were accused of fiddling with state law for partisan advantage.

Iran says it is fiddling with uranium and plutonium to produce more electricity.

Such fiddling with tradition would shock many Jews, but others enjoy it.

Although commercial outfits such as manufacturing plants were the first customers, Carrier kept fiddling with his invention.

I'm sorry Fiddling with youself in bathtub is a real class act.

I turn on the engine impatiently. I'm fiddling with the radio when I hear something.

Look for scratching or fiddling with clothing.

On the fourth my hands are fiddling with my ears.

Instead they look at fiddling with university admissions.

This is not something that any amount of fiddling with red tape will bring about.

Someone's been fiddling with the accounts. There is some money missing.

Some, including their whip in the House, were caught fiddling with their BlackBerrys.

By fiddling with the rates at which benefits are withdrawn from those who find work, Mr Duncan Smith hopes it will always pay to take a job.

Bath over, I took to fiddling with other buttons and knobs in the bedroom.

"It's made in China? Really? I had no idea, " said travel agent Xiao Wang, fiddling with a shop display iPad.

'Have you got a spanner? ' said Winston, fiddling with the nut on the angle-joint.

I start fiddling with it. I came up with this letter.

is all the time fiddling with a pencil,

Have you ever seen a sales guy not fiddling with or talking on his Blackberry phone?