Sentence example with the word 'tinkering'

tinkering

coquetry, dalliance, fiddling, fooling, idling, kidding around, messing around, monkeying around, playing, pottering, smattering, trifling

Last update: August 14, 2015


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Turgot's only choice, however, was between "tinkering" at the existing system in detail and a complete revolution, and his attack on privilege, which might have been carried through by a popular minister and a strong king, was bound to form part of any effective scheme of reform.   [Please select]

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And she was certain that Dorry must have been tinkering all the clocks,--they struck so often.   [Please select]

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However lax he might be about early rising and the prosody of Vergil, he was tireless in tinkering.   [Please select]

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The barn door was open and a man in greasy overalls was tinkering about a small motor-car.   [Please select]

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"That 'ere wheel'll need considerable tinkering afore it's fit for use."   [Please select]

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Robert McCormick spent the larger part of his days and nights tinkering at a practical machine.   [Please select]

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1590-1591) is an example of this tinkering work, in which, however, his native power is unmistakably manifest.   [Please select]

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"Still it is a worrisome business having him tinkering with those wires all the time."   [Please select]

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There was no reason why Jack should not be tinkering in the blacksmith shop early of a morning.   [Please select]

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"Now for the papers," said Jack, as he straightened up after tinkering with the last machine.   [Please select]

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An hour had passed since he began his evening toilet; yet here he was, still tinkering, so to speak, over the last of a dozen cravats.   [Please select]

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