How to Use fidgety in a Sentence

fidgety

adjective
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  • I get too fidgety to sit after a few minutes in a waiting room.
  • He grew more fidgety with each passing hour.
  • The man was very fidgety and could not stop moving around.
    — cleveland, 1 May 2022
  • The long-eared taxis have patience to spare, even with fidgety youngsters.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 26 June 2019
  • The music is fidgety and full of harmonic shifts, run through with two-against-three rhythms.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
  • But Toys R Us is bullish on a broader trend around toys that keep fidgety fingers busy.
    — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2017
  • Or a fidgety toddler rolling around on a banquette and playing with his or her plate of plain spaghetti?
    — Cnt Editors, CNT, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Barrie’s chaste romance with Sylvia will leave younger ones fidgety.
    — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
  • And to think: all this because Bledsoe ... got fidgety in the waiting area of a not-at-all-imaginary hair salon.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • For the smaller kids who may become fidgety before a baseball game is over, a new playground will be installed near the field.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2019
  • For example, if your student is fidgety, stack books to make their workplace a standing desk, or give them a ball of Play-Doh to kneed out of sight.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2020
  • As the king of Belgium and other leaders took turns at the lectern, Trump got fidgety, shifting in his seat, looking up to the sky and down to his feet, and crossing his arms over his chest.
    — Philip Rucker, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
  • But more than anything, where Wentz looked fidgety and hesitant in the pocket, Hurts looked comfortable and poised.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The officer said the driver appeared nervous and fidgety.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Or, says Roberts, to finally get a good look at the brain activity of his often fidgety patients.
    — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Jenny Dearborn remembers as a kid in the 1980s being told to leave class and run laps around her school to burn off her excess, fidgety energy.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 2 July 2019
  • Yet on April 1 hundreds of fidgety kids and their dutiful parents withstood spring showers to attend the grand opening of the world’s newest Legoland.
    — Chris Anstey, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2017
  • But kids with Down syndrome also have sensory issues or feel fidgety, and many are unable to wear the mask for those or other reasons.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Those specs are fidgety little things to pin down, especially when trying to buy used equipment.
    — David Kender, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The Puma cruises happily at rapid highway speeds, but the combination of road noise and a fidgety ride makes longer journeys wearing.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 12 May 2021
  • Cantering around them is a fidgety emcee in her fifties, face caked with makeup, corralling them in front of the cameras for a few bland questions about shooting in Kinmen.
    — Jordan Riefe, Orange County Register, 22 May 2017
  • Meanwhile, her aides, sitting in a vehicle on the Sky Harbor tarmac became fidgety, the report says.
    — Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 14 June 2018
  • On one recent day, at a Juárez migrant shelter, two Honduran women fed their fidgety toddlers.
    — Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2021
  • With the clocks moved forward an hour and daylight stretching past 12 hours, the annual phenomenon has arrived in full, fidgety force.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2021
  • To space out fidgety kindergarteners, Kylie Schipper is eschewing group desks, which would place students in close quarters in little pods of six.
    — Lacey Russell, Madeleine Stix, CNN, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Taller players, for example, run with longer, antelope-like strides, whereas the legs of shorter players are more fidgety.
    — John Robertson, Ars Technica, 10 June 2017
  • Certainly not young folks, which explains why a paltry 7 percent of fidgety youth bother tuning in at all, putting it in line with rodeo viewership.
    — Ari David Blaff, National Review, 11 July 2021
  • With his shoulder over a barrier, Leung stood on a stool and held an umbrella with one hand as his fidgety pianist fingers tapped on the barrier.
    — CNN, 17 June 2021
  • In the carnivorous world of videogames, a lot of smart people spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to appeal to a market consisting mainly of a lot of fidgety, fickle adolescent boys.
    — Burr Snider, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1994
  • Close by, Sunday brunch at Brawn on Columbia Road is also a lovely option; if your children get fidgety, take them outside for a stroll through the weekly flower market.
    — Stirling Kelso, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 May 2017

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