How To Use Wriggling In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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Also, the undersides of an osprey's feet are covered in spiny spicules which prevent fish from wriggling free.
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Wriggling close to the hawser, he opened his jack-knife and went to work.
The Lost Poacher
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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.
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She's wriggling and twisting on the bed all the time.
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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
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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
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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
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The dog ran away, wriggling its tail.
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Stop wriggling and sit still!
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Then she came wriggling back, with repentant doleful eyes starting upward and a knife behind her back.
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As each wave breaks over the sand, it brings in a fresh cargo of wriggling fish to the shore.
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Grasping her prey with her legs and jaws, in another moment the wriggling body is passive in her grasp, subdued by the potent anæsthetic of her sting -- a hypodermic injection which instantly produces the semblance of death in its insect victim, reducing all the vital functions to the point of dissolution, and then holds them suspended -- literally prolongs life, it would sometimes seem, even beyond its normal duration -- by a process which I might call ductile equation.
My Studio Neighbors
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The superior glutton is the shark, -- that mouth with fins, that natatory intestine which swallows with equal indifference the dead and the living, flesh and wood, cleanses the waters of life and leaves a desert behind its wriggling tail; but this destroyer brings forth only one shark that is born armed and ferocious ready from the very first moment to continue the paternal exploits, like a feudal heir.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
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The babies are wriggling on their tummies.
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She squirmed above him, wriggling like a fish on a hook.
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Twisted her other behind her back, all while avoiding the wriggling kicks and thwarting the clever maneuvers designed to slither out of even the tightest holds.
Earl of Durkness
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We peer down at the tiny worm wriggling under the lens of our microscope.
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Having pinpointed the exact location, the bird goes in for the kill with an elaborate maneuver, kicking its legs out from under its wings and jackhammering its beak a few centimeters into the soil to nab its wriggling breakfast.
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This time I don't feel that way so much, the wriggling and jiggling and tickling inside feels more like a reassurance that all is well.
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Memorable Ones: Sperm wriggling their way into an egg; a tapeworm being removed from an artery of a very fleshy arm; happy little M& M figures sending cartoon messages to a cartoon brain.
Boiling the Dog's Head
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Insectivora plucked a wriggling cockroach out of a plastic box and licked her lips.
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Finally, Mephistopheles leaped down off the wall to where grey cat was wriggling and rolling -- but alas, he bungled it.
ON CATS
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It was twisting and turning, wriggling about like a snake.
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Stop wriggling and let me put your T-shirt on.
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The expression replacing the phony smile was all too sincere: as if a rock had been lifted and the real Owen had been glimpsed wriggling there in the dirt.
Sin City
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The soldiers were both terrified and amused at this very dangerous snake wriggling around, and eventually, they dispatched it.
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I could hardly keep still, squirming and wriggling all the time.
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I can't brush your hair if you keep wriggling all the time.
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Mr. Vandemar held the centipede 's head delicately between a huge thumb and a massive forefinger to stop it wriggling.
NEVERWHERE
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He has developed a gift for wriggling out of controversies by seizing the initiative and creating a third option.
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Three scenes in particular are almost puke-worthy: when Goldblum shows Geena Davis how “Brundlefly” eats, when Brundlefly undergoes his final metamorphosis, and, ickiest of all, when the pregnant Geena Davis experiences a dream (prophecy? flash forward?) in which she goes into labor and ends up squirting out a wriggling watermelon-sized maggot.
Top 10 Most Unnerving Movie Scenes » Scene-Stealers
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Once those worms start wriggling from the can, it's a tricky job getting the lid jammed on again.
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It was believed that serpents, coiling together in a wriggling, writhing mass, generated these glass or paste beads from their slaver and shot them into the air from their hissing jaws.
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It seems that all the nutters in Glasgow rush to crowd the kerbside when I am driving; urchins are forever stepping out between parked cars while wrestling with wriggling puppies.
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To cut a long story short, this bill is introducing these rules to stop the banks from avoiding and wriggling out of their taxes.
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They had sliced the worm in two and the worm was still wriggling.
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In each test, we compared simulations guided by the wriggling algorithm to ones guided by a standard thrashing algorithm in which the dihedral angles are varied independently.
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The baby was wriggling around on my lap.
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The creature mewled at him, and Hap saw a pair of wriggling fangs inside the mouth.
DRAGON GAMES
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Then I sorted the buggy strap that goes between the legs so that when I got him in I could hoick it up and prevent him wriggling out the bottom step two.
Interfering busybodies R Us
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Nothing has changed and our party will certainly be opposing any attempts at wriggling out of their duties.
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I got to eat the witchetty grub still wriggling desperately.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stop wriggling and let me put your T-shirt on.
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Soon someone spotted a massive, gelatinous white blob wriggling in the sand.
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The crawling and wriggling carcasses had been the innocent victims of the chaos taking possession of their world.
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It is "mindful of regulatory arbitrage possibilities at the boundary", which translates into English as an acknowledgment that financial professionals who make a handsome living from wriggling around rules and taxes will soon enough find the means to connect notionally separate divisions.
Banking: Big brains, small ideas | Editorial
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Baby Martha was wriggling her toes in the sand.
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I could hardly keep still, squirming and wriggling all the time.
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The worm was wriggling on the hook.
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Even government ministers were wriggling inside the jampot fiddling their expenses.
The 'big society' is collapsing under its inherent absurdity | Catherine Bennett
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The baby was wriggling around on my lap.
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They could not even be unflexed; and other mere pollywogs near by were wriggling toes, calves, and thighs while yet these were but imperfect buds.
Edge of the Jungle
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I like a lot of different types of jazz, but not the kind that sounds like an airhose going off underwater with notes wriggling up and down the scale like an insane snake accompanied by bangs and toots.
What I cooked last night.
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Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders.
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She was already wriggling into her aquamarine showerproof.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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The wriggling worms had done a great transformation job on my fruit and veg waste.
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The blonde bombshell picked up the wriggling puppy and folded him under her arm.
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Her forceful voice coupled with the wriggling of her waist on a slender body, was a great sight to watch.
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What to do, if you're a mature academic who honestly loves what he she does, but realizes he she has overstudied the wriggling bug in the jar it is that he she studies...
How to Write a CoHE "First Person" Essay: A Handy Multiple-Choice Guide
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A little later, on the green, Dawa is carefully trying to remove a worm that's wriggling in his line.
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We peer down at the tiny worm wriggling under the lens of our microscope.
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Then Jana, with a wriggling motion, tried to unnail himself as gently as possible, for it was clear that the knife point hurt him, but could not do so because Hans still held the handle and had driven the blade deep into the wood.
The Ivory Child
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Finally, Mephistopheles leaped down off the wall to where grey cat was wriggling and rolling -- but alas, he bungled it.
ON CATS
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Zethus fought against his power valiantly, wriggling and twisting, but got little reward for his struggles, as he didn't move an inch.
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He said: ‘I'm sick of the others wriggling and squiggling over it.’
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In the weeks ahead, salmon fry wriggling from beneath the gravel shall surely excite hungry populations of local cutthroat.
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Wriggling close to the hawser, he opened his jack-knife and went to work.
The Lost Poacher
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We were quite out of earshot from the road, and it would be hard to imagine a more desolate place than it appeared, between two and three o'clock on that March night, the bare twigs of the birch-trees wriggling in the bleak wind, the faint light of the decrescent moon, that seemed to be upside down in the sky, falling on the white rocks, and on the whitened branches torn down by the winter's storms, lying like bleached bones upon the ground before us.
Paul Patoff
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Michael it was, less travelled in the world than Jerry, by nature not so self-controlled, who threw the play-acting of dignity to the wind, and, with shrill whinings of emotion, with body-wrigglings of delight, flashed out his tongue of love and shouldered his brother roughly in eagerness to get near to him.
CHAPTER XXIV
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As curly-locked James clung 20-ft from the ground he had no idea of the commotion he had caused by wriggling out of a roof window at his Windermere home on to the roof tiles.
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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.
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Children, wriggling around as though itching powder had been poured down their backs, watched the judges going up and down the rows inspecting the costumes, sometimes asking what the guiser was meant to be, occasionally conferring with each other.
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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Rickety stalls display the shiniest fruit and veg imaginable, still-wriggling seafood and handmade pasta.
Times, Sunday Times
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The magician turned a ping-pong ball into a shiny box and pulled out of it a wriggling white mouse.
The Magician
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We peer into tubs of wriggling baby turtles - hawksbill, green, loggerhead - each about the size of a 50 cent piece, who await release at night.
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The babies are wriggling on their tummies.
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Once when I was in the bath, I saw a very prettily patterned green snake come wriggling through a gap between the wooden window frame and the mosquito netting.
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Minutes later, she started to struggle again, pushing and pulling her arm, twisting and wriggling to try to get away.
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Low over the water, close to the fringe of jungle the eagle flew, when a grey falcon dashed out, snatched from its talons the wriggling fish, and with one swoop disappeared under a yellow-flowered hibiscus bush overhanging the tideway.
My Tropic Isle
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We all look at the huge dusty pink crayfish still wriggling their legs.
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The tail keeps wriggling after it leaves the lizard's body.
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She switched him back to the stroller, and a strange thing happened… Zack would writhe around in the stroller, wriggling and crying, until his mother picked him up.
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They dug down to reach the terrier and were amazed when a mud-caked Meg emerged - along with two wriggling pups.
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The burglar then managed to escape by wriggling out of his hooded tracksuit top, before dumping his loot and running off.
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Josephine and Clemence, in pinafores and stickout skirts, sat wriggling, with Winthrop between them; the five dogs sat in a row behind; Katie and
The Younger Set
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They dropped to the floor and began twitching and wriggling slightly.
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Minutes later, she started to struggle again, pushing and pulling her arm, twisting and wriggling to try to get away.
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That snake, however, in all its wriggling, scaly glory, would never find its way into network fare.
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When he does do something like greedily grab onto a bottle of milk with his mouth, it's an event worth getting all worked up about because it shows a glimmer of him being a wee person instead of a wriggling blob that poos.
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The baby was wriggling around on my lap.
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Strapped in their car seats, children make nightmarish passengers, wriggling, squirming and whining.
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The "crewman" turned out to be a hairy horror, a three-foot headless lump shaped like an eggplant, supported by four splayed legs and with an indefinite number of tentacles wriggling below the stalked eyes.
The Worshippers
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Lest the piece should slip through the hole in the lip, a kind of rivet is formed by twine bound round the inner extremity, and this, protruding into the space left by the extraction of the four front teeth of the lower jaw, entices the tongue to act upon the extremity, which gives it a wriggling motion indescribably ludicrous during conversation.
In the Heart of Africa
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Our little girl was wriggling around trying to get comfy while the sonographer bounced the ultrasound stick on my belly to try and get her to shift to a good position so we could see all four chambers of her heart.
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Whether wriggling free of markers, surging out in front of goalscoring charts or simply performing to a standard those around him cannot match, the Swede is a master at setting himself apart.
