Meddled Sentence Examples

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  • At court, though no trifler or flatterer, he was a favourite counsellor in three successive reigns, but he never meddled much in civil or temporal affairs.

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  • Lord Shelburne meddled in the negotiations for the peace at Paris.

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  • With political matters she hardly meddled as yet.

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  • But he never meddled at all; just slid the lid along as soft as mush, and screwed it down tight and fast.

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  • He became lieutenant governor of Virginia in June 1710, when he was received with some enthusiasm, because he brought to the colony the privilege of habeas corpus; his term as governor closed in September 1722 - probably because he meddled in ecclesiastical matters; but he remained in Virginia, living near his ironworks in Germanna, a settlement of Germans, on the Rapidan in Spottsylvania county (named in his honour) and he was deputy postmaster-general of the colonies from 1730 to 1739.

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