MEDDLE in a Sentence

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My love," said the marquise, "attend to your doves, your lap-dogs, and embroidery, but do not meddle with what you do not understand.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEDDLE
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meddle
 v.  mix; mingle; interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs, specifically, to handle or disturb another's property without permission
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  The lands, being a minor, he could not meddle with.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  Joseph shuffled up and made a noise, but resolutely refused to meddle with him.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  Besides, I meddle not the least with any party, but write without passion, prejudice, or ill-will against any man, or number of men, whatsoever.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XII.
4  Bazarov held aloof from these matters, and indeed as a guest it was not for him to meddle in other people's business.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  And don't meddle in other people's affairs.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
6  When mischief-makers don't meddle even a German beats Buonaparte.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII
7  Well, I'll learn her how to meddle.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V.
8  My love," said the marquise, "attend to your doves, your lap-dogs, and embroidery, but do not meddle with what you do not understand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
9  Now what cozening fiend it was, gentlemen, that possessed Radney to meddle with such a man in that corporeally exasperated state, I know not; but so it happened.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
10  It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these creatures.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.
11  Clover asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
12  Its instability startled me extremely, and I had a queer reminiscence of the childish days when I used to be forbidden to meddle.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XII
13  Oh, meddle in nothing which concerns me.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
14  The commissary then, instead of continuing to interrogate him, made him a long speech upon the danger there is for an obscure citizen to meddle with public matters.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
15  It is astonishing how much Eliza still manages to meddle in the housekeeping at Wimpole Street in spite of the shop and her own family.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
Example Sentence:
1  Don't meddle with other men's business.
2  Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
3  The duke told him to make himself free and easy, and if anybody ever come meddling around, he must hop out of the wigwam, and carry on a little, and fetch a howl or two like a wild beast, and he reckoned they would light out and leave him alone.