FIDGETY in a Sentence

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When it was in place they stood side by side on the door-step, watching Daniel Byrne plunge off behind his fidgety horse.

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 Meanings and Examples of FIDGETY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fidgety
 a.  restless; uneasy; nervous and unable to relax
Classic Sentence:
1  I should think she'd hate to poke herself where she isn't wanted, said Jo crossly, for she disliked the trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted to enjoy herself.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
2  Hannah says she thinks so, but she looks worried, and that makes me fidgety, answered Meg.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
3  Why, you see I got fidgety, and so did Grandpa.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
4  She was now in an irritation as violent from delight, as she had ever been fidgety from alarm and vexation.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 49
5  When it was in place they stood side by side on the door-step, watching Daniel Byrne plunge off behind his fidgety horse.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  All of them, all the men she knew, even the drowsy-eyed Ashley and fidgety old Frank, were like that underneath--murderous, violent if the need arose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  She twisted about on the keg, becoming nervous and fidgety as Will still did not come.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  Once, when I arrived at six o'clock, Lena was ushering out a fidgety mother and her awkward, overgrown daughter.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
9  Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I.
10  I was stupid and fidgety then,' answered Pavel Petrovitch; 'since then I have grown quieter, if not wiser.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  Thinks I, it won't do to paddle; first I know I'll run into the bank or a towhead or something; I got to set still and float, and yet it's mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time.
2  First I know I'll run into the bank or a towhead or something; I got to set still and float, and yet it's mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time.