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Example sentences for "dabbler"

Lexicographically close words:
dabbed; dabber; dabbing; dabble; dabbled; dabbles; dabbling; dabchick; dabchicks; dabei
  1. A particularly objectionable thing in these water drops, the dabbler insists upon my spying at is the furious activity of everything you see in them.

  2. If they had sat about more and thought, they might be fishing the dabbler out of ponds and examining him instead of his examining them.

  3. Aphrodite, the dabbler tells me, is a kind of dirty mud-worm, and much dissected by spectacled pretenders to the London B.

  4. The dabbler is good enough to say that the suggestion is inconceivable.

  5. Euglena viridis the dabbler calls them, which seems unnecessary information.

  6. If the dabbler wash him off this slide into his tube of water again, this trivial creature may go on feeding and growing and dividing, and presently be thrown away to wider waters, and so escape to live .

  7. The dabbler really knows nothing of how they do it.

  8. Even so, it may be, the dabbler himself is being curiously observed.

  9. He was a dabbler in literature, like his brother, but scarcely to the same extent a dabbler in wit.

  10. Well, now you must understand, I am a sort of dabbler in professions.

  11. He was also a bit of a dabbler at Poetry, a writer of Songs, Epigrams, Epitaphs, &c.

  12. Rossignol, a man of queer habits and queerer dress, a dabbler in physical science, a devout Catholic, and a constant friend of the Cure.

  13. As a dabbler in mines he had been out of his element.

  14. What's Dabbler to him, or he to Dabbler, that he should weep?

  15. What did he mean by saying that Mr. Dabbler was a warm man?

  16. He was a rather small frail man, of private means, a dabbler in art.

  17. The truth is that pity was dangerous, for it was thought no one could have compassion on the sufferings of a witch who was not a dabbler in the art: to have wept for a witch would have insured the stake.

  18. Sainte Croix, who had been in Italy, was a dabbler in poisons.

  19. He is likewise something of a dabbler at reviewing novels, but they must be largely sprinkled with murders, and have plots strong enough to carry anything but the clergy.

  20. She was little, a very little blue, rather a dabbler in the "ologies," than a real disciple.

  21. I am the merest beginner and dabbler in doing right myself, and have more need to ask you to teach me than to set up for teaching you.

  22. She was no mere dabbler in anything: in music, for instance, she had studied thorough bass, and studied it well; yet her playing was such as I have already described it.

  23. He was, moreover, a dabbler in literature and music, and was actually engaged on a history of music, which he subsequently published in five ponderous volumes.

  24. The truth is that pity was dangerous, for it was thought no one could have compassion on the sufferings of a witch who was not a dabbler in sorcery: to have wept for a witch would have insured the stake.

  25. Similar tenants at an earlier period might, with almost equal probability, have led him to the stake as a dabbler in forbidden sciences, or have caused him to be revered as one to whom a deep spiritual instinct had been granted.

  26. It had been gall and wormwood to the head of the firm of Sleek and Dabbler to find that in King's Warren village, except among the tradesmen whom he patronized, for no fault of his own, he had remained a social pariah.

  27. To dance implies that a man is glad," and Dabbler was a cheerful-minded fellow enough, but no lady danced with him a second time.

  28. We will not continue this conversation, Mr. Sleek," said Dabbler solemnly, and both gentlemen buried themselves in their newspapers.

  29. Not contented with walking through his square dances, as is the lazy custom now-a-days, Mr. Dabbler had danced them with a vigour and ingenuity which would have assuredly brought down the house at a transpontine theatre.

  30. Now Dabbler was a widower; he was not of prepossessing appearance, and his h's troubled him, but Dabbler was a warm man.

  31. Because I'm not a Nero," returned Dabbler with a sigh.

  32. Was Mr. Capt a gambler, a backer of horses, or a dabbler in stocks and shares?

  33. I suppose Alderman Dabbler must have been very much in love with Miss Warrender, though he never actually had the impertinence to propose to her.

  34. An essay on the Humbug, by a dabbler in natural history.

  35. Like Johnson, too, he was a great dabbler in physic and a reader of medical works.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dabbler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.