dabblement

Example Sentences

• "But let us leave these dabblements in acoustics, and come on to a second waterfall, which is, to my mind, as beautiful as the first is magnificent."
• "Even the other day, at the Patencheru Camp, the hon. Minister for Co-operation speaking on the co-operative movement said that he was feeling sorry that politics dabbled with the co-operative movement and that the co-operative movement is not doing proper work on account of this political dabblement."
• "Though he seldom in his final years even hinted at bebop, Miles's last years were dominated by the blues, a recognition that still hasn't filtered through his dabblement with pop and hip-hop."
• "The bustling spirit which animated Mrs. Mulligan was this day particularly restless, as if to heighten the effect of her strange visitor's inertia; scouring and dusting were carried on with might and main; half the kitchen was submerged, amphibious Katy floating in the dabblement, and never relaxing but to give her guest a stare, which would have frightened any animal but a German Frau."
• "Already victor, whom on slippery ground, Drench'd with the blood of victims newly slain, He stumbled, luckless man; his footing lost, Prone on the turf amid the dabblement Of mud and gore he fell;"
• "I returned, near broken-down utterly, at the set time; and alas, was met by a foul dabblement of paint oozing downstairs; the painters had proved treacherous to her; time could not be kept!"