(v. t.) To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.
(v. i.) To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water.
(v. i.) To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now she also dabbles in playwriting and rap, and is in the band Sound of Rum .
(2) Rebelling by dabbling in drink, fags, sex – the list goes on – is part of growing up.
(3) Asked by a troll how long he planned to “live off” his Olympic success, and if he would ever do anything of consequence again, Rutherford suggested he might become a porn star or dabble in pottery instead.
(4) With Jackie Collins announcing plans to self-publish a revised version of her novel The Bitch, even traditionally published authors are now dabbling in self-publishing, and the survey found this was to good effect: they earned 2.5 times more when self-publishing than did rejected authors or authors who went straight to self-publishing.
(5) Mean arterial blood pressure in dives was unchanged from pre-dive levels in both naive and trained dabbling ducks.
(6) The US dabbled ineffectually in helping the rebel cause, hobbled by uncertainty over the groups it was dealing with.
(7) His father was a doctor who dabbled in property and ran for local election on a far-right ticket in 1959.
(8) He seems to hanker after footholds – a dabble with Scientology has come to an end, and it seems fair to say that the experience has contributed to what he calls his "wounded position".
(9) He is a maverick, a teenager – and dabbles in enough off-beat skits to fill that token jazz category.
(10) Absolute Radio has already launched the digital services Absolute Radio Classic Rock, Absolute 80s, Absolute 90s and its user-controlled station, dabbl .
(11) That may be so - and both the Times and Telegraph dabble in the Mail market.
(12) He also dabbled in cleaning and fabric-dying businesses, thought of becoming a professional cameraman and was eager to market self-designed chess sets, optical machines and scientific toys.
(13) The cause of the yearly death of an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 migrating dabbling ducks (Anas spp.)
(14) Dickens said dabbl would initially be a London-based service on DAB but would soon expand its reach to parts of the south of England including Essex, Berkshire, Wiltshire and Bristol.
(15) Blessed – or cursed – with Africa's most famous name, many of the Mandelas have gone into business; a few have dabbled in politics and two are starring in a much-derided reality TV show, Being Mandela .
(16) It wasn't until 2005, in Untold Stories, that he discussed his sexuality and said he considered himself gay, despite his long-term dabbling with the other side.
(17) The Nevada state assemblywoman was – before her dabble as negotiator-in-chief – best known for the striking images she distributes of herself and her family armed with guns.
(18) Yet one of the rationales for QE is that it discourages investors from holding government bonds and encourages them to dabble in riskier assets.
(19) Donald Trump may have insulted Mexicans, Muslims and women but to woo Indian American voters he’s even dabbling in Hindi for Diwali.
(20) They charge visitors $20 for a tour, carry out routine maintenance to prevent it turning to dust, and hope that one day the old autocrat’s children, who continue to dabble in politics, will restore it for the nation.
Wade
Definition:
(n.) Woad.
(v. i.) To go; to move forward.
(v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
(v. i.) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
(v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.
(n.) The act of wading.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
(2) Pharo also claimed that Wade had turned down the scoop about MPs’ expense claims because she had spent so much on a book by former glamour model Katie Price.
(3) It is a conflict over ownership of the process of revolutionary change, one that has already brought violence back to Egypt's streets – and which Fahmy's project is wading straight into the middle of.
(4) But with the privilege of hindsight – plus a very long afternoon wading through the responses to the green paper – handily archived on the iLegal site – it probably wasn't the time to give ministers the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slender and qualified that benefit was.
(5) Wade denied that the episode affected his focus during the Finals, but the NBA star regularly speaks about how important fatherhood is to him.
(6) Hogan-Howe waded into the row, saying gang members heard simple messages such as that there was a minimum five-year jail sentence for possession of a gun, but had no idea about the equivalent sentence for carrying a knife.
(7) The next step after Roe v Wade was the establishment of legislation in 1977 that protected the right of medical personnel who either refused to participate in abortion procedures or those who did participate.
(8) It is called the Constitution of the United States.” The anti-Planned Parenthood videos fail to make a case against abortion | Scott Lemieux Read more It’s not news that Rubio disagrees with reproductive freedom – he opposed Obama supreme court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because of his opposition not only to Roe v Wade but to any constitutional right to privacy.
(9) It was a successful breeding season for avocets - black and white wading birds - at Orford Ness in Suffolk, despite a lack of mud for feeding.
(10) Yet within seconds of my mother's profile flashing up on the screen, I found myself wading through my parents' most recent social occasions.
(11) Scottish Natural Heritage is exterminating them in the Outer Hebrides not because there is a plague of hedgehogs there but to protect the nests of the wading birds whose eggs and chicks a few escaped pet hedgehogs having been eating.
(12) Given that the next president could be in a position to replace Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer – two of the members of the razor-thin five-vote majority supporting Roe v Wade – Americans who don’t want to return women to the reproductive dark ages should vote accordingly come November.
(13) Dwyane Wade added 33 points and 10 assists for the Heat, who at 28-7 are off to their best 35-game start in franchise history.
(14) Even before Charles waded into the planning process last spring, there had been a debate in the Qatari camp about whether to approach him so he could not surprise them with objections.
(15) But Oliver now seems to have accepted his fate as a satirical news anchor who covers the Trump campaign, wading into the recent phallus-based Trump news in his headlines section on Sunday night.
(16) He later tweeted the same message with Wade’s first name spelled correctly, and deleted the original message.
(17) We may never know what Dimbleby really thinks about Griffin's appearance on Question Time because he is careful to avoid expressing an opinion, although he seems to relish wading into the BBC's internal politics and is one of the few presenters who can get away with chastising his bosses.
(18) Several privately owned canoe and kayak rental agencies offerguided and independent trips down the Mullica, Batsto, Oswego and Wading rivers.
(19) "I've never really talked about it but in some ways it represents one of my points about campaigning journalism – listening to your readers," Wade added.
(20) We examined the hypothesis (Ono & Wade, 1985) that occlusion of far stimuli by a near one on the same visual line can operate as a depth cue in stereograms containing different numbers of targets in the two eyes.