How to Use worm in a Sentence

worm

1 of 2 noun

• I often see worms in the garden.
• We always used worms as bait for fishing.
• The worm of my corkscrew went through the wax just fine.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• The early bird gets the worm (or in this case, the wedding venue).
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
• Markus holds a yellow-and-green worm in the air, slick and chewed.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
• Herb Hand got the gang pumped with his version of the worm, thanks to some Kris Kross.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2022
• One was caught on a live worm and the other on a 6-inch Yum Dinger.
  — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2023
• The swollen veins on her hands were fattened gray worms.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Besides the painful emergence of the worm, Guinea worm can cause fever and swelling.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
• But for many, something known as a jumping worm hits the nail on the head.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2022
• Then the radiator sent a virus or worm to the statites.
  — Karl Schroeder, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2024
• Their collar then is milky-white, flat against the body and wraps around the entire worm.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2022
• But like a folksy ear worm, the urge to find it within this wilderness of rock might be hard to shake.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
• Overnight, the worms in the samples wiggled to the bottom and collected in the water.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
• Each year our cucumbers get worms that eat through the fruits.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• Pick off the worms and drown them in a bucket of water or leave them in the open where birds can find and eat them.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• It's named for the worms that typically come out in March.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• Add a layer of compost and/or worm castings on top of soil.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
• The eggs are then ingested by small mammals, and the worms can grow inside them.
  — Amanda Holpuch, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• The researchers learned more about the worms by spawning more than 100 generations of them in the lab.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• So, in many ways, the worm was a symbol or metaphor for the very force of nature and its many different forms.
  — Karen Idelson, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• Recharge the old potting soil with some worm castings and compost, then use it with new plants.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• The results are fewer leaves and worm castings which happen to be a great thing for lawns.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Sep. 2022
• His farewell to the worm was not unlike the soliloquy of a movie villain about to dispatch the hero.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Even as inflation slows a bit, housing is still a can of (pricey) worms.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
• Live worms, crickets, small jigs, flies and top-water poppers will do the trick.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Dancers lay flat on the ground and rolled with another dancer on top, or started on the floor and inched forward like a worm.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Numbering in the thousands, the horde of worms stretched the length of two football fields and was thick enough to cover the seafloor like shag carpet in spots.
  — Mark Price, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
• Now, scientists have discovered a new species of deep-sea worm.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
• Some worms can produce pheromones that can attract other worms toward them.
  — Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024

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worm

2 of 2 verb

• He slowly wormed through the crowd.
• He slowly wormed his way through the crowd.
• You should have the dog vaccinated and wormed.
• Sounds of the big, flat palm fronds slapping in the breeze wormed into my ears.
  — Annabelle Dunne, Vogue, 17 June 2018
• Briticisms​ and British spellings still worm their way into our copy.
  — WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• Hope the politicians and Delta do not find a means to worm their way into the Senate version.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Politics, as with most punk acts, have wormed their way into the band’s lore.
  — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
• Big Tech has wormed it way into every corner of our lives; now Big AI could be about to do the same.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2023
• So how did Schitt’s Creek manage to worm its way into the hearts of Emmy voters?
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 18 July 2019
• There are colors that pop and sounds that worm their way into your deepest lizard brain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• But the idyllic scenery hides a dark history that soon starts to worm its way into Jack's mind.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 22 June 2022
• Maybe a little verse would worm its way in between meetings.
  — Tess Taylor, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
• Your little ones will worm their way into their crushes' hearts in no time.
  — Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2016
• Honorable mention to Twitter board members, who stuck to their guns and didn’t let Musk worm his way out of the deal.
  — Byjacob Carpenter, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2022
• Our furry friends have a way of worming their way into our hearts and homes, often claiming a spot in our own beds.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2023
• The music is visceral, the high-pitch whir of the lira flutes like a snake worming its way through my earholes and taking hold of my brain stem.
  — National Geographic, 23 July 2019
• Muttering to himself, Hadreas wormed around the stage, lap danced the knotted chair, crawled under it, threw it aside, still shrouded.
  — Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
• And in recent weeks, the mystery manages to worm its way into my thoughts almost daily.
  — Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 5 June 2019
• That anecdote quickly wormed its way under Trump’s skin.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 28 June 2017
• Will Alayah worm her way back into the remaining group of bachelorettes?
  — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2020
• But, like the siren song of awkward pants or white Dansko clogs, bolos may worm their way into your life in the not-too-distant-future.
  — Stella Bugbee, The Cut, 26 Apr. 2018
• Rather, the flimsy excuse looks like Musk trying to worm his way out of the deal or open a window for negotiating down the price.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 13 May 2022
• Outside of lamb, turkey, and soy, products like mung beans wormed their way into Bureau taste tests.
  — Michael Waters, Smithsonian, 9 Aug. 2019
• While the record has been called a celebration of club music and its origins, fashion still manages to worm its way into the lyrics.
  — Vogue, 5 Aug. 2022
• Some work for weeks to gain entry to a company’s network and then worm their way through the system, finding the most vital data to hold hostage.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2021
• This insight was embraced across the industry and wormed its way into the New Republic.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• Just getting to our seats on Wednesday was like worming through a victory parade on Broad Street.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The researchers will look at pathology slides of patients’ tumors to see if white blood cells are worming their way into the cancers.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
• Plus, Hal Cooper has wormed his way back into everyone's lives.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Apr. 2018
• Food carts pass through, and depending on the service that day, passengers can sometimes order food to the compartment as the train worms down the country.
  — Monisha Rajesh, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024