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• He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.From the entry thrust
• Those little wriggling worms are the larvae of flies who laid eggs here.From the entry worm
• The worm wriggled out of the man's pocket.From the entry wriggle out of
• Such highly intensive deployment left little wriggle room, something with which Dunster is all too familiar.2022 October 5, Nick Brodrick, “Pendolinos: a huge role to play”, in RAIL, number 967, page 41. From the entry beer and skittles
• 'Come here, buggerlugs.' The woman flung her arms out to her sides and wriggled her fingers.2022 February 24, Rebecca Griffiths, The Hidden Child: A completely unputdownable mystery thriller inspired by a true crime, Bookouture…. From the entry buggerlugs
• For the actual wriggling mounds of flesh, Jeremy used another shader, created by Doug Epps, called ‘Blorph’.2013 March 4, “Phil Tippett – Monster Legacy”, in MonsterLegacy.net, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023. From the entry blorph
• While lying down, she wriggled into wool long-john top and bottoms.2000, Ian Wilson, Sally Wilson, Wilderness Journey: Reliving the Adventures of Canada’s Voyageurs, West Vancouver, B.C.; Seattle, Wash.…. From the entry long-john
• Whatsit sat there, wriggling her toes, contentedly finishing her sandwich before scrambling to her feet.1962, Madeleine L’Engle, “Mrs. Whatsit”, in A Wrinkle in Time, New York, N.Y.: Ariel Books, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Ariel…. From the entry argyle
• The wolfdog sprawls on his back, wriggling obscenely with begging paws, his long black tongue lolling out.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 2]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry wolf dog
• The “wriggling and wraggling” of the fish in their mother's guts evokes the seething waters that expelled Pilate's body.2014, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays, page 124. From the entry wraggle
• This state of affairs enhanced the empire's security and created a certain wriggle room for the policy-makers in Berlin.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 141. From the entry wriggle room
• Marcelle, Clothilde, Virginie, bored and scornful, passed slowly round, squirming and wriggling in the time-honoured fashion of mannequins.1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train. From the entry mannequin
• They clambered, squirmed and wriggled to the deck, forcing us steadily backward, though we emptied our pistols into them.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry squirm
• They were just squirming and wriggling there.1912, Jack London, chapter 8, in Smoke Bellew, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 201. From the entry acrawl
• Tom Kitten bit and spat, and mewed and wriggled; and the rolling-pin went roly-poly, roly; roly, poly, roly.1908 October, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, London: Frederick Warne, →OCLC; republished as The…. From the entry roly-poly
• RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey claimed the operator was trying to "wriggle out of its agreements and block fair pay for its members".2025 June 25, Richard Wilcock, “Network News: RMT overtime ban prompts XC cancellations warning”, in RAIL, number 1038, page 11. From the entry wriggle out of
• Reacting to the splotty sound, Myke Phoenix jumped up onto the roof, landing not far from where a big white blotch of web was wriggling.2019, Warren Bluhm, Myke Phoenix - The Complete Novelettes, page 561. From the entry splotty
• She shared a particularly adorable video captioned, “all the kisses. happy fall.”, that shows Myron wriggling around on the couch during an after-walkie snuggling session.2018 September 24, Samantha Wilson, “Ariana Grande Posts Adorable Video With Mac Miller’s Dog Myron - Taking Care Of Him After Ex’s…. From the entry walkie
• There, a huge blue heron stands sentry like a statue, eye on the surface, waiting for his next meal to wriggle by.2016, Rae Carson, Like a River Glorious, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry whole
• VH-1 fortunately wriggled out of a deal to film newlyweds Liza Minnelli and David Gest whose marriage lasted slightly longer than a cough drop.2004, Celia Rivenbark, We're Just Like You, Only Prettier. From the entry poutsome
• I crawled, wriggled, rolled and ran back into Düdenbüttel, where Borman got the sharp end of my tongue for not protecting me.2000, Roy Redgrave, Balkan Blue: Family and Military Memories, page 89. From the entry sharp end of one's tongue
• She looked round for Vera, but could not see her, and in the process of wriggling through the heaving crowd was elbowed in the eye.1975, Marjorie Darke, A Question of Courage, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Kestrel Books, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry elbow
• Informed our hostess a thousand times we had to leave early, and do you think she'd get a wriggle on with the tea ?1928-29, Jack Lindsay and Percy Reginald Stephensen, The London Aphrodite: a miscellany of poems, stories, and essays by various hands…. From the entry get a wriggle on
• The sack had been left untied, and so by wriggling a bit he was able to get his head through the opening and look out.1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New…. From the entry untied
• Jake wiped his fingers on his peejay bottoms, then wriggled into the sleeping bag on top of the foamy that was just half a metre from Shadow.1999, David John Smith, The Red Bandanna, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry peejay
• The tail of that sinuous line of nightmarchers seemed very horrible, and as I saw them wriggling into a venerable tomb they seemed more horrible still.1997, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Crawling Chaos: Selected Pulp Fiction. From the entry nightmarcher
• She knotted our ribbons very tightly so that we should not lose them,—they pulled the little hairs under our curls and made us "ooch" and wriggle.1942, Emily Carr, “How Lizzie Was Shamed Right Through”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry booby
• Instead, she used a rejective wriggle to slither out of her frock, and there stood squirming, putting a shield of arms before her breasts and belly.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 197. From the entry unrobe
• We did not speak, and she began to flush and wriggle on her seat, and stooped forward to fumble under the legs of her chair for her umbrella.1918 March, Rebecca West [pseudonym; Cicily Isabel Fairfield], chapter I, in The Return of the Soldier, 1st American edition, New York…. From the entry unveracious
• On his belly he wriggles up to the sanda's hole, rustling the tuft of grass with a noise which resembles the crackling of a snake's scales.1913, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, page 122. From the entry sanda
• Washed-up jerry cans and bits of lumber wriggled at the water's edge, amid the sewage and the sloggings of occasional fishermen and the spreading wake of a Vietnamese patrol boat.1983, National Lampoon, volume 2, numbers 54-65. From the entry slogging

Meaning of wriggle

1. verb To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
2. verb To cause something to wriggle.
3. verb To use crooked or devious means.

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How do you use wriggle in a sentence?

Wriggle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.”

What is a short sentence with wriggle?

“They were just squirming and wriggling there.”

What does wriggle mean?

Wriggle means to twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.