Meddling Sentence Examples

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  • Meaning, if I can't take care of my own stable, I shouldn't be meddling in yours?

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  • Fated couples and Tabitha's meddling interference.

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  • The only one of them perhaps which requires notice is Religious Courtship (1722), a curious series of dialogues displaying Defoe's unaffected religiosity, and at the same time the rather meddling intrusiveness with which he applied his religious notions.

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  • Scooby Doo, crime fighting sleuth and side kick to Shaggy and those meddling kids!

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  • The golden rule of not meddling over-much applies distinctly to the Spanish Iris, as the new roots begin to shoot out almost before the old stalk has withered, and the bulb must not be kept out of the ground.

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  • Unfortunately, married bliss only lasted a short time before Dixie's uncle (Palmer) and Tad's biological mother (Opal) began meddling.

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  • Despite Dan's meddling and conditioning to have Nathan drive Lucas away, Lucas proved a valuable asset to the basketball team and gradually, the brothers began to connect.

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  • Their meddling with Michael's (Connor Trinneer) DNA created an enemy who would haunt the expedition.

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  • Angels, actual winged beings that purport to serve God, are meddling in man's affairs.

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  • It was the smallest moon in the Five Galaxies, the section of space under the influence of the meddling Planetary Council.

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  • I ask them everything from which diaper bag they like best to how they handle meddling in-laws.

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  • Their perpetual meddling in politics, and even in speculation and finance, stank in the nostrils of every government in Europe; while their high-handedness and corporate greed in the matter of ecclesiastical privileges and patronage alienated the clergy.

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  • The newlywed Munroes purchase a rundown, ramshackle cottage and plan to fix it up themselves, primarily to escape her meddling father.

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  • Brooke originally thought that Ridge was Bridget's biological parent, but this was due to meddling with the paternity test.

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  • As in other telenovelas, Augusta's meddling results in Matilde's love being sent to prison.

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  • But depending on the lore being discussed, fairies often can be sinister and mischievous, meddling in human affairs with detrimental outcomes.

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  • Eventually they audition, but their progress is threatened my meddling friends and competition in the form of Sharpay (Tisdale) and Ryan (Grabeel) Evans.

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  • In the course of his work, he has to deal with meddling mothers, angry fathers, contestants who don't commit to training and a host of other problems.

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  • Fouche, for meddling in the negotiations through an agent of his own, was promptly disgraced; and, when neither England was moved by diplomatic cajolery nor Louis Bonaparte by threats, French troops were sent against the Dutch capital.

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  • After the death in 950 of Lothair, king of Italy, Berengar sought the hand of his widow Adelaide for his son Adalbert; and Henry of Bavaria and Ludolf of Swabia had already been meddling independently of each other in the affairs of northern Italy.

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  • Already in 1884 he had warned the French clergy against meddling in royalist intrigues; in 1892 he issued a much more stringent exhortation to French Catholics to rally to the Republic. An idea got abroad that he was looking to the time when the old dream of Lamennais and Gioberti might become a reality, and Italy would split up into a number of republics, amongst which the temporal power of the pope might find a place.

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  • The transfer of the seat of empire from Rome to Constantinople gave the bishops of Rome a possible rival in the patriarch of Constantinople, but the absence of an overawing court and of meddling statesmen did more than recoup the loss to the head of the Roman Church.

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  • Panin further incensed Catherine by meddling with the marriage arrangements of the grand duke Paul and by advocating a closer alliance with Prussia, whereas the empress was beginning to incline more and more towards Austria.

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  • When the new councils were established and beginning to work, he strongly set his face against any meddling with their proceedings by questions and answers in Parliament.

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  • She enriched herself at the expense of the state, corrupted society, degraded the clergy, and in her later years was universall y detested for her mischievous meddling, inexhaustible greed, and.

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  • Washington's retreat through New Jersey; the manner in which he turned and struck his pursuers at Trenton and Princeton, and then established himself at Morristown, so as to make the way to Philadelphia impassable; the vigour with which he handled his army at the Brandywine and Germantown; the persistence with which he held the strategic position of Valley Forge through the dreadful winter of 1777-1778, in spite of the misery of his men, the clamours of the people and the impotence and meddling of the fugitive Congress - all went to show that the fibre of his public character had been hardened to its permanent quality.

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  • Perhaps this, as well as his meddling with astrology, caused him to be charged with practising magic, the particular accusations being that he brought back into his purse, by the aid of the devil, all the money he paid away, and that he possessed the philosopher's stone.

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