dabble

verb

Definition of dabblenext
as in to delight
to take part in an activity in a superficial way She dabbled in drawing and painting but sculpture was her favorite medium.

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Recent Examples of dabble Madison kicked off the race to the Oscars in a red custom Prada, and dabbled in haute couture in a black Schiaparelli skirt and bra set at the Gotham Awards. — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2025 Croix has dabbled in music as well, collaborating with Cedric on his 2023 Christmas album, The Soul of Christmas. — Jackie Tempera, People.com, 18 Feb. 2025 The duo have dabbled in fashion for the past decade, selling caps, jewelry, T-shirts and more complex garments directly to consumers via social media, their website and the fashion resale app Depop. — Miles Socha, WWD, 18 Feb. 2025 Fanatics is also starting to dabble in app-only exclusives. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dabble
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dabble
  1. delight
  2. entertain
  3. play
  4. amuse
  5. please
Verb
  • Like Clarkson often does, Groban delighted fans by performing for them.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • What’s more, Mattel throughout its history operated with a studio-like approach to creating products to delight the most fickle consumers and their parents.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of delight
Verb
  • Carter gave up smoking and took up swimming and—a basis for a musical, perhaps—entertained Bette Midler and her husband.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
  • At Willows, California, she was entertained at a local duck club and invited to go along on a duck shoot.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of entertain
Verb
  • Others lament that young people will lose the chance to build up fluid mental math skills while playing: develop number sense, compute sums and products, budget, compare value, think strategically or reason using simple probability.
    — Ann Rutledge, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Jericho Rosales plays Quezon, and the cast also includes Mon Confiado, Benjamin Alves, Karylle Yuzon, Romnick Sarmenta, J.C. Santos and Cris Villanueva.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of play
Verb
  • Pictured below, Italian fashion editor and writer and sharp dresser Anna Della Russo took the all-black memo in a different, more officers’ mess-jacket/killer-matador direction that, though witty, doesn’t seem to have been done to amuse anybody.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • After asking him to repeat his request, Scott, amused but also now genuinely curious, inquired as to why, exactly, Thomas wanted one gigantic truck tire.
    — Nick Baumgardner, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Definition of amuse
Verb
  • Right here, inches from our noses, are observations, memories, and relationships—people to please—that can generate the kind of richness that Brainard brings to his work.
    — David S. Wallace, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2025
  • My dad was going to engineering school at Columbia [to please] his father.
    — Eric Ryan, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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