MEDDLE in a Sentence
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28 example sentences for MEDDLE, such as:
1. Well, I'll learn her how to meddle.
2. Don't meddle with other men's business.
3. Oh, meddle in nothing which concerns me.
4. And don't meddle in other people's affairs.
5. The lands, being a minor, he could not meddle with.
2. Don't meddle with other men's business.
3. Oh, meddle in nothing which concerns me.
4. And don't meddle in other people's affairs.
5. The lands, being a minor, he could not meddle with.
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Meanings and Examples of MEDDLE
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meddle
v. intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 The lands, being a minor, he could not meddle with.
2 Joseph shuffled up and made a noise, but resolutely refused to meddle with him.
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.
4 Bazarov held aloof from these matters, and indeed as a guest it was not for him to meddle in other people's business.
5 And don't meddle in other people's affairs.
6 When mischief-makers don't meddle even a German beats Buonaparte.
7 Well, I'll learn her how to meddle.
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.
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.
10 It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these creatures.
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.
12 Its instability startled me extremely, and I had a queer reminiscence of the childish days when I used to be forbidden to meddle.
13 Oh, meddle in nothing which concerns me.
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.
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.
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.