wriggling

How To Use wriggling In A Sentence

• I let them down gently, first wriggling out of my board duties (in which I never held a great deal of interest anyway), and then letting go of the technical reins.
• The appended strip accentuates the rightward momentum of the depicted fish tail, as if the wriggling beast had pushed out the side of the composition.
• Also, the undersides of an osprey's feet are covered in spiny spicules which prevent fish from wriggling free.
• Wriggling close to the hawser, he opened his jack-knife and went to work. The Lost Poacher
• I'd have to gingerly scoop up the worm (still wriggling, for he didn't kill them) and I'd throw it out the front door onto the little patch of lawn there.
• She's wriggling and twisting on the bed all the time.
• Rape victims want and need to have their truth recognised and to see their attackers branded guilty; far better to achieve that at the expense of longer jail terms than watch so many rapists wriggling free with victims feeling disbelieved and twice damaged. Are SlutWalkers losing their way? | Victoria Coren
• Several guys had that CIA look with a cord wriggling into their ears and walkies in their hands, but were professional and inobtrusive. Vermeer and Rembrandt at the Vancouver Art Gallery « Colleen Anderson
• You can, if you make up your mind to it, prevent yourself from either wriggling, pulling your foot away, or giggling, when the sole of your foot is tickled; but if you happen to be at all "ticklish," it will take all the determination you have to do it, and some children are utterly unable to resist this impulse to squirm when tickled. A Handbook of Health
• The dog ran away, wriggling its tail.