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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Breaking water in the morning and shoulders squiggling free in the dark of evening.—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024 Vienna’s Danube, Munich’s Isar, and many rivers squiggling across the U.K. and France all have a long history of hosting swimmers.—Jessica Leigh Hester, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
Noun
Amid all that grass is a band of brown host to several moss-colored squiggles, which may be travelers, seen from afar.—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025 The glass block façade of the William H. Turner School in North Miami reflects this light in a thousand eighties-era squiggles, while the building’s pink and teal accents frame the Magic City-ness of the scene.—Nick Remsen, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for squiggle
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