How To Use Dabbled In A Sentence
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So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder.
A Child's History of England
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Looking back over the many extracurricular activities that our children have dabbled in at different stages, nothing has enriched their lives more than music.
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The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
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She dabbled with cosmetic surgery.
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He first dabbled in politics when he was at law school.
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But she also dabbled in a lot of drugs.
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Mystified I adjusted my position so I could see, and dabbled an experimental finger or two in the tank.
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There she dabbled in painting, played the piano and the harp.
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After graduation he dabbled at politics for some time and then quitted it in disgust.
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My brother was ‘a naughty boy’ and dabbled with drugs, nothing grotesquely bad, just uppers and downers, but we think one day he got carried away and accidentally took too many of one sort or the other.
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BThe 36 acres of hilltop land were owned by Aline Barnsdall, an oil heiress who dabbled in producing avant-garde theater.
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Businesses who dabbled in e-commerce during the boom are now reaping the rewards with more than half now making a 20 per cent return on their initial investment.
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I have also dabbled a little in Spanish, Italian and Latin.
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His trousers were bedabbled with mud.
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Nicholas hardly dared to look out of the window; but he did so, and the very first object that met his eyes was the wretched Smike: so bedabbled with mud and rain, so haggard and worn, and wild, that, but for his garments being such as no scarecrow was ever seen to wear, he might have been doubtful, even then, of his identity.
Nicholas Nickleby
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Before thy eyes there would have been hurling of ribs and hoofs this way and that; and strips of flesh, all blood-bedabbled, dripped as they hung from the pine-branches.
The Bacchantes
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It's a lovely place. ⢠I think that mentioning that I "dabbled" in witchcraft is a cool way to address today's youth.
Edward Murray: Apparently, I'm Christine O'Donnell
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Despite having ‘dabbled creatively’, her desire to work with animals led to a six-year stint as a zookeeper and sealion trainer.
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Little wonder almost all of them dabbled in different shades of pale green and blue.
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Garfield dabbled in politics for three years as a lobbyist for the auto industry.
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Erika dabbled in spiritualism, and claimed to be a medium.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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The firm also dabbled in designing rewards and incentives for its clients.
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Stories enow of much the same cast will present themselves to the recollection of such of my readers as have ever dabbled in a species of lore to which I certainly gave more hours, at one period of my life, than
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
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Deeply distressed, the manager sprang to his feet and asked what was the matter, then getting no answer climbed up on the seat and caressed him, cheek to cheek, so that his own face was bedabbled by the trapeze artist's tears.
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In her 20s, Coppola dabbled in modelling, photography and clothes design, occasionally shooting videos for America's alternative rock royalty.
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Then, while Billy wandered in a vain search for abalones, Saxon lay and dabbled in the crystal-clear water of a roak-pool, dipping up handfuls of glistening jewels -- ground bits of shell and pebble of flashing rose and blue and green and violet.
CHAPTER VI
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And now that the battle had ceased, it was a sight to see where the encounter took place, the earth bedabbled with gore.
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After graduating, Grant dabbled briefly in advertising but plugged away at an acting career in regional theatre.
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Skerryvore, but one oval nodule of black-trap, sparsely bedabbled with an inconspicuous fucus, and alive in every crevice with a dingy insect between a slater and a bug.
Memories and Portraits
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After graduating, Grant dabbled briefly in advertising, writing copy for Brylcreem and Red Stripe beer, but plugged away at an acting career in regional theatre.
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Though his banner read burlesque, he occasionally dabbled in slightly more legitimate vaudeville fare.
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He dabbled in the long jump until the age of twenty-four and then decided to switch to the sprints.
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An energetic youngster, she dabbled in countless sports before finally concentrating on hockey.
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While he has dabbled in a wide spectrum of dance music and hip-hop, his freshest tune out of the oven is called "Machete" and it's a killer.
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I planted the mixed borders, dabbled in woodland gardening, and wandered dizzily through the fragrant world of roses.
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Erika dabbled in spiritualism, and claimed to be a medium.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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He has made fortunes in railroading, newspapers, salmon-packing, an oyster monopoly, a lumber combine, and has dabbled in politics, been president of the chamber of commerce, mayor of the city, state senator, and is considered a prime candidate for governor.
“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
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She dabbled her toes in the reflective water below, as he came and sat down beside her.
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Analyst Jeff Hammond, an ex-crew chief who has dabbled in pro wrestling, has bobsledded, parachuted, ridden a fighter jet and crushed cars in a monster truck for footage to liven things up.
NFL draft analysis has its own language
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He had served on numerous civic committees and dabbled on the fringes of politics, mainly at the name-dropping level.
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He's also dabbled in acting.
The Sun
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They are generally called blue-stockings, are described as slatternly in their dress and always as having their fingertips dabbled with ink.
The Five of Hearts
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Winston Churchill and Johnny Cash were fans – damn it, even the Hoff has dabbled in diesel-hydraulic miniatures – so ignore the sniggers, and embrace a weekend devoted to the oft-misunderstood pursuit of model railways.
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There are a lot of such blendings throughout the world, including Spanglish here in Chicago, and Japlish, which my friends and I dabbled in when we were in Japan--the mixture is hard to avoid the longer you're exposed to more than one language.
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He also dabbled in bisexuality and believed in aliens, but those parts are excised from the narrative.
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A gifted pianist and saxophonist, he dabbled in country, jazz, big band and blues, and put his stamp on it all with a deep, warm voice roughened by heartbreak from a hard childhood in the segregated South.
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Before him slain lay that most murderous hound Orthros, in furious might like Kerberos his brother-hound: a herdman lay thereby, Eurytion, all bedabbled with his blood.
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At high school and later as an employee of a steel company he dabbled as a self-taught artist in oil painting.
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Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch Turn, and return, indenting with the way; Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch, Each shadow makes him stop, each murmur stay: For misery is trodden on by many, And being low never relieved by any.
On Hunting
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After graduating, Grant dabbled briefly in advertising, writing copy for Brylcreem and Red Stripe beer, but plugged away at an acting career in regional theatre.
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Appearing on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect almost a decade ago, O'Donnell confessed to having "dabbled" in witchcraft including a date on a "satanic altar.
Karl Frisch: Diluting the Tea Party Gene Pool
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If space is limited in your garden - or if you live in a flat and have no garden at all - then you've probably dabbled in window boxes before.
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He dabbled in radio sales back when they were dubbed superheterodynes, and he brought some of the earliest electric household appliances to San Antonio buyers.
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I could also imagine it's really confusing/angering when so many in the Tea Party love to demonize Muslims and now have to defend a candidate who admittedly "dabbled" in witchcraft, dated witches and had a picnic on a satanic altar.
Dean Obeidallah: The Chamomile Tea Party?
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He's also dabbled in acting.
The Sun
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Then I dabbled with them a bit, painting one elite company trooper in colpack and one regular company trooper in shako.
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Most famous musicians are deep in the occult and it is difficult to find a worldly popular musician who has not dabbled in spiritism to acquire fame and wealth.
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Of course my veggie friends dabbled in such things like Cheese Tacos and grilled paneer and things like that.
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She dabbled in the visual arts, published an idiosyncratic zine called What Are You Dealing With?
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Walton, who in early days dabbled in atonality, eventually settled for neo-romanticism and his Viola Concerto is a most elegiac composition.
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She dabbled with drugs at university.
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I knew Pierre Trudeau cavorted with dictators, dabbled in fascism, embraced communism, tanked Alberta.
ProWomanProLife » One more reason to love Margaret Thatcher
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Over the years, he has also dabbled in property.
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An unnamed carnival promoter who cooperated with authorities introduced an undercover FBI agent to Mr. Boyland, saying he was a family friend who owned an import-export business in Philadelphia and dabbled in real estate.
Assemblyman Again Faces Bribe Charges
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After an hour his back was aching, his hands dabbled, his brow beaded, while the night-winds blew, the light now was commoved, and now glowed a steady red; and still he grovelled.
The Lord of the Sea
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His vesture was dabbled in blood—and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.
Nevermore
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In the early days of Pete's career he dabbled with the idea of becoming a keyboard player.
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After graduating, Grant dabbled briefly in advertising but plugged away at an acting career in regional theatre.
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Sure, she'd drink here and there at parties, and she'd dabbled in a few soft drugs, but nothing too bad.
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Him I found already at his desk and already bedabbled with maccabaw, in the same anteroom where I rencountered with James More.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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They've dabbled in dreamy pop music, trip-hop and dub-flavoured psychedelic hip-hop, changing up styles and experimenting on each new album.
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But he was incredibly bright, excelled at school and as a young man dabbled in the professions of law, teaching and theology.
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She spent her girlhood in San Francisco, where her father dabbled in both journalism and the theater.
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I went through all the requisite phases - making gross-out gore films, gothic cemetery-based flicks and even dabbled in animation.
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Erika dabbled in spiritualism, and claimed to be a medium.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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Those who offer self-publishing services to authors who would otherwise remain unknown are naturally keen to point out that many writers who are now household names have at one time or another dabbled in self-publishing.
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Last semester, she dabbled in communications courses at a local college, which would explain her articulateness in interviews of late.
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She smoked and drank when she pleased, even dabbled in drugs.
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The firm also dabbled in designing rewards and incentives for its clients.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's also dabbled in acting.
The Sun
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His vesture was dabbled in blood - and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.
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Eckford had become a wealthy man and, having bought a mansion and estate on Manhattan Island, he dabbled in politics.
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Her shoes were dabbled with mud.
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Prior to that the former solicitor's clerk had dabbled in water polo and the triathlon.
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As a young boy he dabbled a little in painting but left it completely when he began to work at his brother's studio in Kodungalloor.
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Grainger always considered himself primarily a choral composer who occasionally dabbled in short works for orchestra and chamber ensemble.
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It's a lovely place. ⢠I think that mentioning that I "dabbled" in witchcraft is a cool way to address today's youth.
Edward Murray: Apparently, I'm Christine O'Donnell
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But she also dabbled in a lot of drugs.
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A crash of broken glass, a cry, a shout, an oath or two, had told them that some violent scene was occurring within, and they entered, and behold two victims bedabbled with red — the chaplain bleeding port wine, and the Honourable
The Virginians
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Eckford had become a wealthy man and, having bought a mansion and estate on Manhattan Island, he dabbled in politics.
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In her 20s, Coppola dabbled in modelling, photography and clothes design, occasionally shooting videos for America's alternative rock royalty.
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She is convinced he has dabbled in drink and drugs and has appealed for help from education bosses.
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The turnkey conducted him — trembling from head to foot, and constantly crying under his breath, What was he to do! while his irresolute fingers bedabbled the tears upon his face — up one of the common staircases in the prison to a door on the garret story.
Little Dorrit
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It's astounding that, at 24 years of age, the stand-up comic has already dabbled in more professions than most people attempt in a lifetime.
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Now, after having dabbled in the dark percussive arts whilst enjoying my teenage years, and a spate as the crash-cymbalist in our high-school concert band, it has been a while since i've hit the skins, so to speak.
Ringo, eat your heart out!
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Actually, there was a time when Ter Veldhuis, 58, dabbled with atonalism, but he said he
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Over the years, he has also dabbled in property.
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He is a general wheeler-dealer, and has dabbled in building materials, engineering and property.
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An ousel fluttered across the stream and dabbled in a puddle among some stones.
Uncanny Tales
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But she also dabbled in a lot of drugs.
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Early in his maturity, he dabbled a little in the important musical styles of his era, but in his later works, harmonic consonance largely holds sway.
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I had dabbled with drugs in the past.
The Sun
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waves dabbled with moonlight
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Although we have both dabbled in keep-fit classes and acquired the requisite Lycra bits and bobs to do so, we were never interested in the clothes as a fashion statement.
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Since then, Jayant has dabbled with oil on canvas, watercolour, charcoal, acrylic, clay and plaster of Paris.
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Art was an act of worship, not something to be dabbled with.
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Since then, Jayant has dabbled with oil on canvas, watercolour, charcoal, acrylic, clay and plaster of Paris.
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Early in his maturity, he dabbled a little in the important musical styles of his era, but in his later works, harmonic consonance largely holds sway.
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• I think that mentioning that I "dabbled" in witchcraft is a cool way to address today's youth.
Edward Murray: Apparently, I'm Christine O'Donnell
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Dominant in every other kind of motorsports in which he's dabbled, Penske has never won a NASCAR championship.
Undefined
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His boots were dabbled with mud.
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Mystified I adjusted my position so I could see, and dabbled an experimental finger or two in the tank.
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I was too tired to eat properly, but we made the best of it and finished off with a walk along the beach, where I dabbled my digits in the warm waters of the Pacific.
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Years ago I often dabbled in entomology, but do not recall ever keeping records of sweep net catches - we just picked out the interesting specimens and shook the rest free.
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And we're not the first to do this - Roman or Victorian matrons quite happily dabbled in things such as Ouija boards or patronised spiritualists who promised a glimpse into the unknown or a taste of the illicit.
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He first dabbled in politics when he was at law school.
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He had dabbled in linguistics, ancient languages, cartography; he had put in a short stint at barbering and a shorter stint at fry cook.
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There she met her husband and together they dabbled in designing their own glassware and furniture.
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I dabbled a little bit with smoking when I was at school, but quickly gave it up because I did not like it.
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Though his banner read burlesque, he occasionally dabbled in slightly more legitimate vaudeville fare.
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They had dabbled in kitchen-sink realism.
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But he would not be known to have so done; but I am sure he was soundly bedabbled with that kind of dirt.
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I've never dabbled in vegetarianism, but when I think of my dad's Thanksgiving plate, and of Cara's before she came back over to the dark side of carnivorism, I don't feel that bad for them.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Turkey Day, Without the Turkey
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Over the years, he has also dabbled in property.
Times, Sunday Times
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In her 20s, she dabbled in modelling, photography and clothes design, occasionally shooting videos for America's alternative rock royalty.
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Delaware senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, a woman who once dabbled in witchcraft, couldn't make a living, and believes masturbation is adultery.
Caryl Rivers: Arsenal of Democracy or Fantasy Island?
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How shall we aid the stricken portion lying mud-bedabbled?
Oeconomicus
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There was a cut upon his forehead, and they had been wetting his hair, which lay bedabbled and entangled on the pillow.
Dombey and Son
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• I think that mentioning that I "dabbled" in witchcraft is a cool way to address today's youth.
Edward Murray: Apparently, I'm Christine O'Donnell
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And her first attempts at badminton (at four) were fraught with difficulties because up till then she had dabbled with tennis, and expected the shuttlecock to bounce!
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Though his banner read burlesque, he occasionally dabbled in slightly more legitimate vaudeville fare.
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She dabbled her toes in the stream.
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I had dabbled with drugs in the past.
The Sun
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So my sophomore year - I kind of dabbled in rock climbing in high school and so I joined the rock climbing club.
Words Of Wisdom For The New College Set
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The firm also dabbled in designing rewards and incentives for its clients.
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She threw herself into the club scene and, although she claims not to have dabbled much herself, saw several friends fall victim to drug-related mental illness.
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The moist tawny plumpness of the peaches, dabbled with thick but scratched crimson so that they look like frayed velvet, is further accentuated by the hard cracked shells of the walnuts alongside them on the tablecloth.
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I had dabbled with drugs in the past.
The Sun
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The moist tawny plumpness of the peaches, dabbled with thick but scratched crimson so that they look like frayed velvet, is further accentuated by the hard cracked shells of the walnuts alongside them on the tablecloth.
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The young Mary O'Connor had already dabbled in a few other careers before she entered Templemore College at the age of 25.
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Both sides dabbled with a game of tempo but lacked the continuity skills to do so.
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“like the neural and haemal canals,” said Kurt, who had dabbled in biology.
The War in the Air