Verb
a pediatrician's waiting room full of squiggling toddlers
there are some illegible notes squiggled in the margins of the old book Noun
His handwriting looks like a bunch of squiggles.
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The six dancers in bright blues and greens (a seventh, originally Brown, appears at the beginning and the end) ripple and squiggle through space, intersecting and occasionally aligning, ricocheting and weaving.—Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 1 May 2025 Breaking water in the morning and shoulders squiggling free in the dark of evening.—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
Noun
Not caring about photorealistic imagery Chic books have abstract cover designs — dots, squiggles, stars, oh my!—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 2 May 2025 And boy, was our little squiggle game humbling too!—Michael Alcée, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for squiggle
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