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Synonyms for wriggle
Synonyms: Verb
fiddle, fidget, jerk, jig, jiggle, squiggle, squirm, thrash, thresh, toss, twist, twitch, wiggle, writhe
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Examples of wriggle in a Sentence
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The children wriggled and squirmed in their chairs. She managed to wriggle free of her ropes. They wriggled out of their wet clothes. I had trouble getting the wriggling fish off my hook. The snake wriggled across the path and went underneath a bush. He was able to wriggle through the narrow opening.
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Clocking in at a half-millimeter long, the nematodes that wriggled back to life were the most complex creatures Vishnivetskaya - or anyone else - had ever revived after a lengthy deep freeze. — Daniel Ackerman, Anchorage Daily News, "Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost," 8 July 2019 And rather than lightly combing mascara through the model’s lashes as us normal folks do, Eisdell was pushing and wriggling the mascara into the model’s lashes. — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, "7 Game-Changing Mascara Techniques You've Probably Never Considered Before," 4 May 2015 One aircrewman was able to wriggle out from underneath the tank. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Squadron leaders warned of dangerous helicopter ‘hot seat’ hours before sailor fatally injured, report finds," 5 Aug. 2019 Nicky Wire’s bass-lines wriggle in the loam at the bottom of the mix, like Jah Wobble’s. — Longreads, "Manic Street Preachers’ Album The Holy Bible," 25 June 2019 The tree is very loose in the soil, easy to wriggle like a loose tooth. — oregonlive.com, "Am I watering my new arborvitae correctly? Ask an Expert," 15 June 2019 Cersei has tried to wriggle out of her own doomed prophecy many times, first by trying to save her kids, then by seizing power and getting pregnant. — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, "Why Cersei Lannister Should Survive the End of 'Game of Thrones'," 30 Apr. 2019 Prosecutors and pro-Western lawmakers say Ms. Savchenko, wittingly or not, became a tool of her former jailers in the Kremlin, which is waging a campaign on many fronts against Ukraine’s efforts to wriggle free from its former Soviet master. — James Marson, WSJ, "Soldier, Patriot, Hero, Traitor? The Strange Saga of Nadiya Savchenko," 24 Aug. 2018 Soon the distribution appeared in models of the wriggling perimeter of a bacterial colony and other kinds of random growth. — Quanta Magazine, "At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law," 15 Oct. 2014Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
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, "Intel announces Comet Lake, a faster, 10th-gen Whiskey Lake chip for mainstream laptops," 21 Aug. 2019 There are puppy snuggles, kisses, and adorable wriggles that will keep you entertained for hours. — Sophia Caraballo, Woman's Day, "How to Successfully Potty Train Your New Puppy," 4 June 2019 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, "Half of enterprise machines run Windows 10, as Windows 7’s end of life looms," 25 Oct. 2018 It might be coated with compounds capable of making sperm wriggle in place, keeping them from inseminating a woman’s egg. — Zoë Schlanger, Newsweek, "Plantibodies Could Pave the Road to Wellness," 15 Dec. 2014 The dancers, who double as performers and teachers, gyrate in a circle as the alpacas wriggle among them. — John Clarke, WSJ, "Dancing Alpacas! Guard Alpacas! Party Alpacas! Breeders Find New Uses After Market Bust," 25 Mar. 2018 God- and state-fearing Although Christians are growing more numerous, the wriggle room allowed to them is shrinking. — The Economist, "As China tightens rules on religion, unregistered churches wince," 15 Mar. 2018 Museums in China have barely any wriggle room to question the official line. — The Economist, "Memories and hallucinationsThe Opium Wars still shape China’s view of the West," 16 Dec. 2017 On one hand, the country appears to be running out of financial wriggle room. — The Economist, "How long can Venezuela avoid default?," 2 Nov. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'wriggle.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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