tinkerings

She spent the afernoon tinkering about in the garden shed.

He’s outside tinkering around with his bike.

he spent hours tinkering with the car.

these measures are merely tinkering at the edges of a wider issue.

They haven’t made any real changes to the system — they’ve just been tinkering around a bit.

tinkered with the engine, hoping to discover the trouble; tinkering with the economy by trying various fiscal policies.

I find so much fun especially tinkering with technology.

I know because I went right to work on this new clock thing I've been tinkering with.

And it launched some garage tinkering for Warner, who by day works on improving particle accelerators at Fermilab.

And tinkering away at an engine instead of fighting for freedom?

And like many similar projects on Earth, the owners cannot resist tinkering with it.

They whiled away the hours tinkering with electronics in the Jobs' house.

They keep tinkering with the same problems instead of letting go and moving forward.

Often our tinkerings with nature do lead to big, unintended consequences and chain reactions.

Some people worry that tinkering deliberately with the atmosphere may cause more harm than good.

And they've also learned that, by tinkering with it, they can change the way customers spend.