How To Use Fidgety In A Sentence
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‘Irksome, loopily affectionate, on tenterhooks, fidgety’… ran Emily's immediate assessment of her Husband's ‘welcome-back-to-the-big-city’ mood.
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Anon some wrinkled, fidgety, cogitative being in human form would add a new volume to some slope or tower of the monstrous omni-patulent mass, or some sharp-glancing youth, with teeth set unevenly on edge, would pull out a volume, look greedily and half-believingly for a few moments, return it, and slink away.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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I whispered to my four-year-old, an often fidgety theatregoer who was gripped throughout.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was always fidgety and nervous before boarding a plane.
Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
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As the second act journey took us to tea parties in Arabia, she grew fidgety and bored.
Christianity Today
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A robust grandfather, once the bane of Hollywood screenwriting, regales his frail, fidgety grandson with horrible tales of the macabre and the supernatural.
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This made her restless and fidgety.
Wives and Daughters
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He has a kind of winsome smile and frequently jogs around the set, running from one side of the lawn to the other, and it doesn't feel like the obnoxiousness of a fidgety adult but the buoyancy of a wide-eyed kid.
The House Next Door
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He was fidgety and in a dream world when being given instruction in a group.
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My sister and my mother are the opposite - they are nervous and fidgety.
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A robust grandfather, once the bane of Hollywood screenwriting, regales his frail, fidgety grandson with horrible tales of the macabre and the supernatural.
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Came the big day and she was as nervous and fidgety as a college senior before finals.
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Are you tense, restless and fidgety?
Repetitive Strain Injury
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This is an area where I've often noticed politicians getting a bit fidgety, uneasy even.
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The past few days have been a blur of phone calls, and emails, and arrangements, and fidgety trips to drugstores looking for pills, unguents and toiletries in the tiniest conceivable packages.
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His fingers were never at rest, they had a fidgety, nervous action at their tips, constantly in the act of feeling something; while in the act of talking to me, he would lean over and feel the texture of the cloth of my trousers, my coat, or my shoes or socks: then he would feel his own light jamdani shirt or dabwain loin-cloth, until his eyes casually resting upon a novelty, his body would lean forward, and his arm was stretched out with the willing fingers.
How I Found Livingstone
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Everyone was out of harness, fidgety and anticipative.
Dirge
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Mystifying because in a town with a clear pride in its country and its military past he hates the Royal family, drivels on about fluffy bunnies and their rights detests hunters and is a member of the beverage (ok Beveridge), group a far lefty tax and spend appeasing fidgety self righteous nuisance cabal.
The Hunters Hunted
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In the movie it is the footman of the Grand Duke on behalf of the Prince who performs the actual fitting, but with so many fidgety kids on stage, the drama teacher economized the happy ending.
Parents Behaving Badly
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This is an area where I've often noticed politicians getting a bit fidgety, uneasy even.
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He has the slightly nervous and fidgety air of a man expecting the doctor to ask him to drop his trousers and cough at any moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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This made me jittery, fidgety, wired, and slightly more insane than usual.
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He's all fidgety and sweaty and his hair's long and greasy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Men do not actually "die of a rose in aromatic pain," though many may become uncomfortable and fidgety by sniffing delicious wattle-blossom; and one of the crinum lilies owes its specific title, (PESTILENTIS) to the ill effects of its stainless flowers, those who camp in places where the plant is plentiful being apt to be seized with violent sickness.
My Tropic Isle
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When they were forced by the scientists to gain weight, the skinny people still kept up their fidgety ways.
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Tom Arthurs' Centipede are fidgety writhers, striking angular shapes with tricky grooves and utilising the spiked fork of their leader's trumpet and Laubrock's soprano saxophone.
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He was very fidgety, he had a pager with him at all times, which he was checking the stock market quotes on, the movements within the day.
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My legs have become fidgety and my glance goes against my own will as it sneaks its way in his direction.
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Bound for France, the aircraft was taxiing out to the runaway at Stansted airport when my wife Jean became quite fidgety.
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My twitchy, fidgety mind was already having trouble settling on any single subject for more than thirty seconds.
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Parachute packs a foot-tapping pop melody into its fidgety frame, coming across something like a grittier, grizzlier
BBC - Ouch
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They were nervy sorts, fidgety, who watched your hands as you used the mobile or hunted in your bag for something but would never catch your eye.
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Men do not actually “die of a rose in aromatic pain,” though many may become uncomfortable and fidgety by sniffing delicious wattle-blossom; and one of the crinum lilies owes its specific title, (PESTILENTIS) to the ill effects of its stainless flowers, those who camp in places where the plant is plentiful being apt to be seized with violent sickness.
My Tropic Isle
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My twitchy, fidgety mind was already having trouble settling on any single subject for more than thirty seconds.
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He was fidgety and computerphobic, more of a nuisance than not, but it was a start.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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We really voted this discovery of the cassada root quite a grand discovery, though I was always very fidgety about the poisonous milk in it.
Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island
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Our pint-sized critics watched in fidgety silence.
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Each floor had several components of live artistry — from a man in burlesque drag modeling for a few fidgety painters on art horses (floor 5) to a sword swallower swallowing swords next to a student spraying water on his lineup of dwarfish clay figures (floor 2).
In Tribeca Snowstorm, Parker Posey Makes Us Melt
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As the questioning continued, he became fidgety and uneasy.
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He was fidgety and restless.
The Sun
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‘Inattention, impulsivity, fidgety movement - these are definitely symptoms,’ she said
