Tinkering Sentence Examples

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  • After a great deal of tinkering and trying, they did succeed in making two paddle wheels.

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  • Turgot's only choice, however, was between "tinkering" at the existing system in detail and a complete revolution, and his attack on privilege, which might have been carried through by a popular minister and a strong king, was bound to form part of any effective scheme of reform.

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  • That bit was about tinkering with the payment rules.

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  • Outside a group of teenagers are tinkering with a car engine.

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  • Tinkering around the edges simply will not realize this vision.

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  • Taking the states as a whole, agrarian legislation has been the most important subject that has engrossed the attention of their parliaments, and every state has been more or less engaged in tinkering with its land laws.

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  • I was surprised to find people still tinkering with equipment I hadn't touched for well over a decade!

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  • There can be little more done for car drivers except tinkering around the edges.

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  • The wheat farmers say that it does not pay to take undue care of old machinery, that more money is lost in repairing and tinkering an old machine than would pay for a new one.

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  • If we do not get out sleepers, and forge rails, and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads?

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  • I was surprised to find people still tinkering with equipment I had n't touched for well over a decade !

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  • I believe that the new capital framework must be given time to bed down before we start tinkering about under the bonnet again.

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  • For the rest there are the tombs of many kings in the Biban el Moluk and a good deal of comparatively petty construction and tinkering, with the help of stone robbed from older structures.

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  • Much tinkering with network settings was required on my Wi-Fi enabled iBook laptop but once set up transmission is surprisingly fast.

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  • The Green Party aims to address the root causes of these problems, rather than simply tinkering with the symptoms.

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  • Tinkering with a company structure is like ordering from a Chinese menu Option one is to tinkering with a company structure is like ordering from a Chinese menu Option one is to tinker with the existing structure.

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  • Let us beware of tinkering with our inner life in hope ourselves to rend the veil.

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  • Architectures to prevent or stifle tinkering can be designed into products and technologies whether or not there is a law requiring them.

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  • There are bits of him tinkering around, which could be used.

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  • Tinkering with a company structure is like ordering from a Chinese menu Option one is to tinker with the existing structure.

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  • There's a reason why many scientists struggle as startup founders. The impulse to keep tinkering in the lab rather than releasing the product is a real problem.

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  • Tinkering may feel necessary for those of you with a lab rat's mindset, but it's a psychological crutch.

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  • The beauty of frozen mixed drinks is that they can withstand a lot of tinkering.

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  • He also tinkering with two hand-me-down automobiles from his grandfather -- a Delorean and a 1965 Mustang convertible.

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  • Some games may inexplicably not run on a particular system or run after hours of tinkering for what would have been instant with a console.

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  • With a little strategic tinkering, Microsoft could be in a prime position to capture the emerging power of casual gamers.

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  • Instead of tinkering with your bathing suit, consider changing your hair.

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  • The lack of a celebrity bikini photo doesn't stop people who think money can be made from tinkering with Photoshop and creating a set of the star in various bikini shots.

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  • And if your script is too long or too short, don't even think about tinkering with margins to bring it into conformity with the usual length; any industry professional will spot that in an instant.

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  • In this interview, Rod describes his early experiences and how he transitioned from a young kid tinkering with cars, to an adult building entire cars from scratch.

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  • His shirt stretched tightly over his shoulders and across his back while his biceps flexed and the roped muscles of his forearms rippled with his tinkering.

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