How to Use wriggle in a Sentence

wriggle

1 of 2 verb

• The children wriggled and squirmed in their chairs.
• The snake wriggled across the path and went underneath a bush.
• They wriggled out of their wet clothes.
• She managed to wriggle free of her ropes.
• He was able to wriggle through the narrow opening.
• I had trouble getting the wriggling fish off my hook.
• The tree is very loose in the soil, easy to wriggle like a loose tooth.
  — oregonlive.com, 15 June 2019
• Their hopes were dashed when Musk tried to wriggle out of the deal.
  — Kevin Crowe, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022
• The bug wriggled in her ear on the trip to the hospital.
  — Tamara Lush, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 May 2018
• Live crab from the North wriggle in huge tanks in the fish market.
  — Jane Perlez, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• Nicky Wire’s bass-lines wriggle in the loam at the bottom of the mix, like Jah Wobble’s.
  — Longreads, 25 June 2019
• After about two hours, the Dixons wriggled out of the tape and called police.
  — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 3 Sep. 2019
• The day was a tight skin that only booze could help me wriggle my way out of.
  — Beth Kephart, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The notion that embryos can wriggle around in the womb or egg isn’t new.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021
• After the show, my daughter wriggled her way to the front of the scrum at the stage door with her Playbill.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 11 July 2018
• And sure enough, my wife pushed a second time, [and] his body just wriggled out.
  — Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2019
• Small eels can use a fish ladder at the dams, while large eels are able to wriggle up and over.
  — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2018
• Your child must be mature enough to sit up straight and not wriggle around.
  — Daniela Porat, ProPublica, 6 Feb. 2020
• Meanwhile, the child being held by the first man can be seen wriggling around in his arms.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
• Time to wriggle out of your cozy sleeping sock and seize the day, like this little chick has.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
• He’s stuck between a rock and a hard place, unable to wriggle free.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2022
• The fish thaws and revives in the dog's stomach, where its wriggling causes the dog to vomit.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2019
• Pull that out and leave it on a chair, just in case someone wants to wriggle in for a full-body snuggle.
  — Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2020
• There are some thinkers whose ideas emerge slowly, wriggle around, take turns.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• The female fish will wash ashore, wriggle into the sand tail first and lay about 3,000 eggs a few inches deep.
  — Daily Pilot Staff, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• Rodents can wriggle through a hole as small as a pencil (ick!).
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 23 Nov. 2022
• The little girl in front of me wriggles with excitement.
  — Melanie Radzicki McManus, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• Now, 60 to 80 leopard seals wriggle ashore every year at Cape Shirreff, in the South Shetlands.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Roughed up and dazed, and with a broken rib, Denis was able to wriggle free from his bindings and tumble out of the van.
  — Tom Sancton, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
• Each mother never left her litter, not even to feed, and the hatchlings wriggled around on her back and nuzzled up to the end of her body.
  — Sofia Quaglia, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024

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wriggle

2 of 2 noun

• One of the people wriggles under the gate of the tow yard.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2020
• Their valley is bare dirt, halved by a wriggle of creek.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• If so, the Ducks will enter the meet -- June 7-10 at Hayward Field -- with wriggle room.
  — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
• Look out for eels’ eyes peeking out from coral castles, and watch the glowing green tentacles of a sea anemone wriggle in the tide.
  — Shannon Sims, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• Through a series of plot wriggles, Grace has the opportunity to hang around in the Oval Office.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 27 Sep. 2017
• But the legal decision left the county no wriggle room.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 June 2021
• On one hand, the country appears to be running out of financial wriggle room.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• Deadpan humor is a slippery creature; miss the tone by just a little, and the potential wriggles away.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 3 May 2017
• The dancers, who double as performers and teachers, gyrate in a circle as the alpacas wriggle among them.
  — John Clarke, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018
• There are puppy snuggles, kisses, and adorable wriggles that will keep you entertained for hours.
  — Sophia Caraballo, Woman's Day, 4 June 2019
• From Dave Spang’s perch high atop a sandy cliff in Truro, the vast ocean wriggles and writhes almost imperceptibly beneath a cloudless sky.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• Just under your skin lie whole aqueous worlds, where trillions of cells spark and beat and wriggle and secrete, doing all the complicated tasks of keeping you alive.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 14 May 2022
• One robot wriggles like a newborn baby to understand its body.
  — NBC News, 19 June 2017
• God- and state-fearing Although Christians are growing more numerous, the wriggle room allowed to them is shrinking.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Museums in China have barely any wriggle room to question the official line.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• By leaving the margin outlook unchanged, Rorsted also gave himself some wriggle-room to invest to compete with Nike Inc. and to continue to rejuvenate Reebok.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• It might be coated with compounds capable of making sperm wriggle in place, keeping them from inseminating a woman’s egg.
  — Zoë Schlanger, Newsweek, 15 Dec. 2014
• And the cry to do something, anything, will only grow louder, though the paucity of top prospects and aforementioned inflexibility will leave GM Brian Cashman with limited wriggle room.
  — USA Today, 31 May 2021
• All but about 15% of the revenue is dedicated by voters, leaving little wriggle room for discretion by the council; for example, about one third of the entire capital budget is dedicated to drainage.
  — Faimon Roberts, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• The planned July 19 lifting of most restrictions is being touted by Johnson as a milestone, but the prime minister, characteristically, has left himself some wriggle room.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2021
• That description offers a little more wriggle room; Windows 10 might only have a plurality share of enterprise systems rather than the majority share Nadella claimed.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2018
• Second, Intel also ships each mobile processor with some wriggle room for notebook makers, allowing them to trade off higher power consumption (and probably lower battery life) for more upclocked performance.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 21 Aug. 2019
• One of the people wriggles under the gate of the tow yard.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2020
• Their valley is bare dirt, halved by a wriggle of creek.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• If so, the Ducks will enter the meet -- June 7-10 at Hayward Field -- with wriggle room.
  — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
• Look out for eels’ eyes peeking out from coral castles, and watch the glowing green tentacles of a sea anemone wriggle in the tide.
  — Shannon Sims, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• Through a series of plot wriggles, Grace has the opportunity to hang around in the Oval Office.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 27 Sep. 2017
• But the legal decision left the county no wriggle room.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 June 2021
• On one hand, the country appears to be running out of financial wriggle room.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• Deadpan humor is a slippery creature; miss the tone by just a little, and the potential wriggles away.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 3 May 2017

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