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Example sentences for "wriggle"

Lexicographically close words:
wretchedest; wretchedly; wretchedness; wretches; wretyn; wriggled; wrigglers; wriggles; wriggling; wriggly
  1. Mr Nugent explained how they have to look out for an unoccupied shell, or perhaps eat up the occupant, and then wriggle in their own tails.

  2. If there is no movement in the water, you may wriggle the tiller about as much as you please, and you can't turn the boat's head.

  3. The same mail that brought Larry's letter brought one also to Ted from Madeline Taylor, a letter which made him wriggle a little internally, and pull his forelock, as was his habit when things were a bit perturbing.

  4. Or is it that you think you would enjoy the exquisite pleasure of seeing me writhe and wriggle when you refuse me?

  5. It was a narrow opening, but she managed to wriggle through it.

  6. Mrs. Bindle was clutching wildly at the base of the pole, Bindle was striving to wriggle from beneath her.

  7. Forms that had struggled valiantly to escape from the billowing canvas, now began desperately to wriggle back again to the seclusion that modesty demanded.

  8. The little brute, you know, didn't bark or wriggle or make the slightest sign of vitality.

  9. The master found himself staring down at a red smashed thing on the ground that, in spite of partial obliteration, could still wriggle unavailing legs.

  10. Their sunny faces are beaming, and at the recital of any special piece of knavery on Annancy's part ordinary means of expression fail, and they fling themselves on the ground and wriggle in convulsions of merriment.

  11. To express dissent they do not shake their heads but wriggle the whole of their bodies.

  12. But a fierce wrench of the hanging jaws and a wriggle of the intolerable weight brought him down on all fours again.

  13. Sputtering and gurgling, the Boy brought his head above the surface and tried to raise himself by his hands, high enough to wriggle out upon the surface of the ice.

  14. As he strove to wriggle past into the room Trent came alongside and seized the inexplicably excited dog firmly by the collar.

  15. I've got him, sure; he ain't goin' ter wriggle away.

  16. Climbin' too high, an' gettin' fixed so as he couldn't wriggle out again either up or down?

  17. They clashed in front of that canvas and, in struggling to wriggle out, lunged right against it.

  18. He sprang up with a sudden wriggle as though he were jerking an incubus from his shoulders.

  19. Down On Wriggle Crick "Best time to kill a hog's when he's fat.

  20. There was another wriggle on the part of the medium, after which a lower-toned voice said: "How do you do!

  21. William Dunstable writhe and wriggle and try to explain and qualify was simply splendid.

  22. You'll find that at the end he'll wriggle out of it.

  23. Chatterer had just time to wriggle his way to the middle of the heap.

  24. He thought and thought and thought and thought, trying to find some way to wriggle out of his promise, and just before he fell asleep, an idea came to him.

  25. So as soon as the Kulloo was out of sight the arms and legs and head began to wriggle together round the backbone, and then in a twinkling Lox was whole again.

  26. So he began to wriggle and twist himself up, and just as he reached the top three heads which had been peeking over the edge of the nest suddenly popped down again.

  27. In that instant the mountaineer's arms gripped Rector around the waist, pinioning Ned's arms to his sides, and though Ned struggled to free himself he might as well have tried to wriggle from the grip of an iron vise.

  28. After a time Smoky began to wriggle and grunt.

  29. Then Ginger began to wriggle and try and twist the cords off, but 'e might as well 'ave tried to wriggle out of 'is skin.

  30. I've seen 'im wriggle for five minutes right off, with a tramcar conductor standing over 'im and the other people in the tram reading their papers with one eye and watching him with the other.

  31. A rattling of tin dishes at the other end of the ward made Andrews wriggle up further on his pillow.

  32. At night the eels make for the shallow water to feed, and if the grass is wet they will even wriggle out among it.

  33. Instead of obeying her the man tried to wriggle in.

  34. Harriet, the instant the bull left her, started to wriggle backwards.

  35. One does not dance and jiggle a dry-fly to give it the appearance of life--of some unusual creature with rainbow wings and the ability to wriggle upstream, even against a swift current.

  36. In places we were obliged to lie perfectly flat to worm and wriggle through.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wriggle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    crawl; creek; creep; fidget; flutter; get; glow; heave; jerk; palpitate; pant; quake; quaver; quiver; shake; shiver; squirm; struggle; swell; thrill; throb; tingle; toss; tremble; tumble; twist; twitch; twitter; wag; waggle; wiggle; wriggle; writhe