How to Use piddle in a Sentence
piddle
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Dean, of course, is terrified of heights and tries to act all manly while piddling in his pull ups.
—Melissa Locker, Time, 19 June 2017
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Now I am left here, an earthbound piddler, to piddle alone.
—Southern Living, 1 May 2017
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But his mistakes Sunday may not have looked so glaring if promising drives weren’t piddled away into field goals.
—Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 20 Sep. 2017
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Once March arrives, the sports stags wind down, everybody's a hoops expert and the neighbor that used to piddle in his yard returns from hibernation.
—Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2018
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An electric sedan whose upright battery ate into trunk space and provided a piddling 80-mile range.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2021
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Americans know that Trump can't stop himself from nursing piddling grudges and throwing out childish insults.
—Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 30 Mar. 2023
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Canoo’s piddling 4,500 EV van order means nothing if the company can’t deliver.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2023
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Fiber offers a piddling two calories because enzymes in the human digestive tract have great difficulty chopping it up into smaller molecules.
—Rob Dunn, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2013
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The idea of going after a former president, with all the political consequences involved, on such a piddling charge was so self-evidently absurd that no minimally self-respecting prosecutor would do it.
—The Editors, National Review, 31 Mar. 2023
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Yet, despite conveying huge proportionality, the place utilizes space precisely, including with drains embedded in exact places to catch condensation water piddling out of train air conditioners.
—Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
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