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Wriggle
"Wriggle" in a Sentence (15 examples)
He will wriggle out of the fix.
Wriggle your toes.
I'll try to wriggle out of it if I can.
Seals have small flippers, wriggle on their bellies on land and lack visible ear flaps.
She would catch chafers and beetles and stick them on a pin, after which she would push a leaf or a bit of paper close enough for them to seize with their feet; for the pleasure of seeing them writhe and wriggle in their efforts to free themselves from the pins.
Get a wriggle on.
There's a sense of joy in the evening, as newborn turtles wriggle out of their nest and waddle to the ocean to begin their lives.
Ziri struggled to wriggle free.
After it had been unhooked and was being exultantly inspected by the younger and exhibited for the admiration of the older boy, the fish gave a sudden wriggle, slipped through the hands of its captor, and fell back into the river.
Try to wriggle your way out of this one.
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Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.
In this category the Wriggling Orator claims our attention. This St. Vitus-like speaker does not stand firmly in his boots, but his feet wriggle from heel to toe and over one another; his knees are not braced to hold up his body, but they wriggle outwards, inwards, backwards, forwards; his sides are not erect to sustain his chest, but they bend and wriggle, first one way then another; his shoulders are not squared to the spectator's eye, but they wriggle up, down, out, in; his arms are not expanded in their movements, but they wriggle about and seem to crawl over his body. His head wriggles on the wriggling neck,—his tongue wriggles in his mouth,—the words wriggle out,—and he wriggles all over, and all together.
I tried to ease my grip, but my hands were sweating so profusely that the lizards began to wriggle out of them.
He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.
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