How to Use futz in a Sentence

futz

verb

• No xenon to futz with, or wings to flap, or rotors to spin.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 July 2019
• Kawhi Leonard’s basketball prime is no time to futz around with the dream of an Aldridge upgrade.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• Why not focus on areas of clear need, rather than futzing around with one of the NFL’s best players on a unit that has carried the team?
  — Greg Moore, azcentral, 3 Apr. 2018
• The band occasionally stopped futzing around to fine-tune the song.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
• Videogames and cards are popular, and some players pass the time before games by futzing with the USA Today crossword puzzle.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
• But futzing with all your clocks is so annoying (well, not all, cell phones generally handle this quite well on their own).
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 1 Nov. 2017
• Nobody who futzed around so often and in so many ways with the idea of free will, or who cared so profoundly about the dead, could be described as a fatalist, or a quietist, or resigned.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
• Peterson is futzing with the settings on another Xbox Kinect.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
• Mann isn’t a doctrinaire reviser of his previous work, someone who simply likes to futz.
  — James Wolcott, VanityFair.com, 15 May 2017
• For instance, bicyclists could change songs while peddling by rubbing their arms instead of futzing with their smartphones.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2017
• Uber is a company filled with over-optimizers, who will continue to futz with prices and hope to find equilibrium.
  — Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
• Chandler had been futzing with his truck for the better part of a decade, gradually adding larger tires, higher lifts, and four-wheel steering to his growing behemoth.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2017
• The Alabama Democratic Party — the formal entity, not Democrats generally — is a joke, and the national party is sick of its futzing around.
  — al, 16 Aug. 2019
• The hospitality and restaurant industry has been futzing around with our olfactory memories in the name of experience-making for a few years now.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Projecting the effect of sea-level rise on a specific location typically involves recondite computer models and calculations; Burrito Justice was just a fascinated hobbyist, futzing around on his laptop in his backyard.
  — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024