tinkering in English

verb
1
attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way, often to no useful effect.
he spent hours tinkering with the car
synonyms:fiddle withadjustfixtry to mendplay about withfool withfutz withtamper withinterfere withmess about withmeddle with
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "tinkering" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "tinkering", or refer to the context using the word "tinkering" in the English Dictionary.

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2. Tinkering in different Buoyancies

3. He likes tinkering with computers.

4. Lucinda, stop noodling and start tinkering.

5. But I was always tinkering with machines.

6. Dad was always tinkering around with engines.

7. Governments are not very good at tinkering.

8. He's outside tinkering around with his bike.

9. Total design is much more satisfying than tinkering.

10. He's in the garage tinkering with his bike.

11. Congress has been tinkering with the legislation.

12. Clearly(Sentencedict.com), substantial changes are needed rather than tinkering.

13. No amount of tinkering is going to improve matters.

14. In fact, a tinkering government is a dangerous thing.

15. He was tinkering away at the broken machine.

16. He spends every weekend tinkering with his car.

17. The Puffin may never fly, but other inventors are tinkering.

18. I wish the government would stop tinkering with the health service.

19. She spent the afernoon tinkering about in the garden shed.

20. The password will prevent others from tinkering with your data.

21. The government is merely tinkering at the edges of a much wider problem.

22. Tinkering with transfer - pricing rules or CFC rules will not solve the problem.

23. This is time consuming tinkering but it can eventually produce a breakthrough

24. Any tinkering by users would negate the principle of a worldwide standard.

25. History is littered with examples of people tinkering, tampering and then tumbling.

26. But following the ruckus over the AEP, several states are tinkering with the course material.

27. They haven't made any real changes to the system — they've just been tinkering around a bit.

28. In a complicated system, though, tinkering with one component can put another one out of kilter.

29. But he got so frustrated with the software available for economic modeling that he began tinkering.

30. To spice up some of their machines, parlor owners have been tinkering illegally with the odds.

31. Whether it was the reinventing of history books or tinkering with the syllabus, there was Bumblingness to the BJP.

32. The government is tinkering with minor matters while the Crown Court burns a substantial amount of money. Sentencedict.com

33. The government also is tinkering with how it tallies Hispanic citizens and in what order questions are put to respondents.

34. Whether it was the reinventing of history books or tinkering with the syllabus, there was Bumblingness to the BJP

35. After tinkering with the device for a few years, the company created a national radio rating service in 1942.

36. It's like all of our pharmaceutical chemistry is a pole operator in Wichita, Kansas who is tinkering with about 10 or 15 telephone lines.

37. You can speed up the processing time of your CPU by having multiple Cores and tinkering with overclocking (which you can read about here)

38. The big question today is whether all these alternative approaches can add up to more than a bit of desperate tinkering around the edges.

39. Exhibitions include the 3M Tinkering Hub; General Mills Lift, Load and Haul; Market Sponsored by Walmart; Nature Valley Water Amazements; Nickelodeon Play Lab; Hershey's Lab and more

40. Or, going back to our computer analogy: Why keep tinkering around with the software when we can easily solve the problem by installing some extra memory instead?

41. True, man does not control the weather, although there are some who think that man’s tinkering with the environment through nuclear testing and the like have altered weather patterns.

42. However, you can easily waste time if you do a lot of irrelevant browsing, tinkering, or customizing or if you buy unnecessary accessories or allow use of the device to get in the way of important relationships or responsibilities.

43. Autodidacts.io is the blog of three thing-building, self-educating, voraciously-reading, computer-tinkering, music-playing brothers who hail from Canada’s west coast, where the weather is wet, the post office is open three days a week, and power outages are frequent.

44. Basically this is a micro-controller with a few extra components that can be shipped for very little cost across the world, and that's what is all required with a little bit of local tinkering talent to convert the device into something else.

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