How to Use wriggle in a Sentence

wriggle

verb

• The children wriggled and squirmed in their chairs.
• The snake wriggled across the path and went underneath a bush.
• They wriggled out of their wet clothes.
• She managed to wriggle free of her ropes.
• He was able to wriggle through the narrow opening.
• I had trouble getting the wriggling fish off my hook.
• The tree is very loose in the soil, easy to wriggle like a loose tooth.
  — oregonlive.com, 15 June 2019
• Their hopes were dashed when Musk tried to wriggle out of the deal.
  — Kevin Crowe, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022
• The bug wriggled in her ear on the trip to the hospital.
  — Tamara Lush, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 May 2018
• Live crab from the North wriggle in huge tanks in the fish market.
  — Jane Perlez, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• Nicky Wire’s bass-lines wriggle in the loam at the bottom of the mix, like Jah Wobble’s.
  — Longreads, 25 June 2019
• After about two hours, the Dixons wriggled out of the tape and called police.
  — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 3 Sep. 2019
• The day was a tight skin that only booze could help me wriggle my way out of.
  — Beth Kephart, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The notion that embryos can wriggle around in the womb or egg isn’t new.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021
• After the show, my daughter wriggled her way to the front of the scrum at the stage door with her Playbill.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 11 July 2018
• And sure enough, my wife pushed a second time, [and] his body just wriggled out.
  — Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2019
• Small eels can use a fish ladder at the dams, while large eels are able to wriggle up and over.
  — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2018
• Your child must be mature enough to sit up straight and not wriggle around.
  — Daniela Porat, ProPublica, 6 Feb. 2020
• Meanwhile, the child being held by the first man can be seen wriggling around in his arms.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
• Time to wriggle out of your cozy sleeping sock and seize the day, like this little chick has.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
• He’s stuck between a rock and a hard place, unable to wriggle free.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2022
• The fish thaws and revives in the dog's stomach, where its wriggling causes the dog to vomit.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2019
• Pull that out and leave it on a chair, just in case someone wants to wriggle in for a full-body snuggle.
  — Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2020
• There are some thinkers whose ideas emerge slowly, wriggle around, take turns.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• The female fish will wash ashore, wriggle into the sand tail first and lay about 3,000 eggs a few inches deep.
  — Daily Pilot Staff, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• Rodents can wriggle through a hole as small as a pencil (ick!).
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 23 Nov. 2022
• The little girl in front of me wriggles with excitement.
  — Melanie Radzicki McManus, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• Now, 60 to 80 leopard seals wriggle ashore every year at Cape Shirreff, in the South Shetlands.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Roughed up and dazed, and with a broken rib, Denis was able to wriggle free from his bindings and tumble out of the van.
  — Tom Sancton, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
• The jelly center of the cassiosomes is coated with cells that have tiny hairs, which wriggle to move the blob around.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024