How to Use waggle in a Sentence

waggle

1 of 2 verb

• He can make his ears waggle.
• He can waggle his ears.
• Bees waggle their butts to tell their hive-mates where to find a juicy stash of nectar.
  — WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
• Bohacek reminded the kid what to do, and the kid waggled his little hands in the air again.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
• In addition, though dogs love to stick their heads out and waggle their tongues, keep the windows shut.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• The biggest action star in the world, Dwayne Johnson, known as the Rock, got his start as an eyebrow-waggling wrestler.
  — Jeremy Gordon, New York Times, 27 May 2016
• A three-year-old Glen of Imaal terrier named Emmett sat on his hindquarters and waggled his paws in the air for a treat.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2017
• These jiggling particles waggle the cilia, telling the corals where to head.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2010
• Listeners are instructed to waggle their tongues, raise their arms to the ceiling or simply lie back and relax.
  — oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2021
• Many animals, including a species of shark and some lizards, waggle their tails as a decoy that trick prey into coming near.
  — Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2019
• When the time comes to couple up, males will shake, shimmy and waggle their rears in an astounding display of eight-legged choreography.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020
• These are passed to a kayaker, who waggles them overhead, like a prize, before stowing them in a laundry basket for safekeeping.
  — Liam Archacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2023
• Many golfers at this point will waggle themselves into alignment—matching the programmed swing shape with the proper ball position.
  — Paul Christianson, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• In these noisy and dynamic few milliseconds the fat rear Michelins hazed and the Pista’s posterior waggled left, then right, violently, a 710-hp twerk.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
• When motion control is turned on in either Splatoon game, players must waggle their hands to control all vertical-axis aiming.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2018
• The story is more dignified and tonally consistent than in the last film — Redmayne never has to do another butt-waggling Erumpet seduction dance — but much of it plays out with just as little weight as Fantastic Beasts’ silliest moments.
  — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018
• Honeybees also waggle dance — a unique and endearing way of communicating with one another.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• He can make his ears waggle.
• He can waggle his ears.
• Bees waggle their butts to tell their hive-mates where to find a juicy stash of nectar.
  — WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
• Bohacek reminded the kid what to do, and the kid waggled his little hands in the air again.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
• In addition, though dogs love to stick their heads out and waggle their tongues, keep the windows shut.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• The biggest action star in the world, Dwayne Johnson, known as the Rock, got his start as an eyebrow-waggling wrestler.
  — Jeremy Gordon, New York Times, 27 May 2016
• A three-year-old Glen of Imaal terrier named Emmett sat on his hindquarters and waggled his paws in the air for a treat.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2017
• These jiggling particles waggle the cilia, telling the corals where to head.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2010
• Listeners are instructed to waggle their tongues, raise their arms to the ceiling or simply lie back and relax.
  — oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2021
• Many animals, including a species of shark and some lizards, waggle their tails as a decoy that trick prey into coming near.
  — Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2019
• When the time comes to couple up, males will shake, shimmy and waggle their rears in an astounding display of eight-legged choreography.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020
• These are passed to a kayaker, who waggles them overhead, like a prize, before stowing them in a laundry basket for safekeeping.
  — Liam Archacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2023
• Many golfers at this point will waggle themselves into alignment—matching the programmed swing shape with the proper ball position.
  — Paul Christianson, WSJ, 15 June 2022

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waggle

2 of 2 noun

• Researchers discovered that puff adders in the wild waggle both their tongues and their tails to lure prey, like a prolonged and high-stakes hokey-pokey dance.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2017
• There might be a brief nod or a tiny waggle of fingers to an adoring spectator, but little else.
  — Sam Borden, New York Times, 16 July 2016
• Aside from dropping a bat waggle in between his setup and his swing, there have been no major or notable changes to his stance.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 8 May 2018
• The play-action waggle play was designed to go to Smith, a defensive linemen who had his number called as the third-string fullback.
  — Luke Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2019
• Like the democratic society of the bees, in which consensus arrives through waggle dancing.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2020
• The right-handed-hitting Acuna has no extraneous movement, no bat waggle, no hip action.
  — Ray Glier, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
• Nurses and foragers are very distinct sub-castes that differ in their bodies, mental abilities, and behaviour – foragers, for example, are the ones that use the famous waggle dance.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2012
• Beset by these seemingly involuntary waggles, as they were known, Garcia appeared fussy and nervous.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2017
• Gyroscopic controls in video games used to be limited to features like the Wii waggle, but that situation has changed in recent years, thanks to support for a mix of motion and joystick controls in popular Switch and PlayStation games.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2022
• Did Groucho’s eyebrow waggles and those brothers working in insane sync influence my dim view of Carmelo Anthony’s tendency to play isolation hoops?
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
• And considering the physical effort bees exert — from the waggle dance that communicates the location of a food source to the forceful beating of wings — Segura had a unique physicality to inform her choreography.
  — Marcia Manna, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• Researchers discovered that puff adders in the wild waggle both their tongues and their tails to lure prey, like a prolonged and high-stakes hokey-pokey dance.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2017
• There might be a brief nod or a tiny waggle of fingers to an adoring spectator, but little else.
  — Sam Borden, New York Times, 16 July 2016
• Aside from dropping a bat waggle in between his setup and his swing, there have been no major or notable changes to his stance.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 8 May 2018
• The play-action waggle play was designed to go to Smith, a defensive linemen who had his number called as the third-string fullback.
  — Luke Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2019
• Like the democratic society of the bees, in which consensus arrives through waggle dancing.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2020
• The right-handed-hitting Acuna has no extraneous movement, no bat waggle, no hip action.
  — Ray Glier, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
• Nurses and foragers are very distinct sub-castes that differ in their bodies, mental abilities, and behaviour – foragers, for example, are the ones that use the famous waggle dance.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2012
• Beset by these seemingly involuntary waggles, as they were known, Garcia appeared fussy and nervous.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2017
• Gyroscopic controls in video games used to be limited to features like the Wii waggle, but that situation has changed in recent years, thanks to support for a mix of motion and joystick controls in popular Switch and PlayStation games.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2022
• Did Groucho’s eyebrow waggles and those brothers working in insane sync influence my dim view of Carmelo Anthony’s tendency to play isolation hoops?
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
• And considering the physical effort bees exert — from the waggle dance that communicates the location of a food source to the forceful beating of wings — Segura had a unique physicality to inform her choreography.
  — Marcia Manna, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017

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