Example sentences for: dabbling

How can you use “dabbling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Americans tend to be allergic to politicians' dabbling in vague spiritual criticism, and for good reason.

  • The latest installment in the Grisham legal thriller franchise gets good press: It's "personal, moving and much deeper" than his previous books, writes Deirdre Donahue in USA Today . Critics say this one is better because Grisham goes beyond his usual dabbling in social causes and injects honest-to-God Christian spirituality, and with success: "Grisham's smart use of the suspense novel to explore questions of being and faith puts him squarely in the footsteps of Dickens and Graham Greene" ( Publishers Weekly ). A few reviewers find the overt Christianity preachy and self-righteous, but most say it improves an otherwise standard page-turner.

  • Somebody at the base was dabbling in morbid art therapy.

  • Pat Boone 's television show, GospelAmerica , was canceled after an uproar over his dabbling in heavy metal.

  • If dabbling in Holocaust denial doesn't convict Buchanan of anti-Semitism on its own, it makes a powerful case in combination with the many things he has said and written pointing to Jews as a surreptitious, sinister force in American life.


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