squirming

Example Sentences

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He guides me inside a warehouse full of vast, bubbling water tanks and heaves out a haul of the squirming, long, thin black fish.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Paramount Skydance isn’t putting up too much of its own cash, but holy God is it adding a lot to the $14 billion in debt already squirming on its balance sheet.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

“I’ve had a pit in my stomach all day,” said his father, Craig Kupp, with an irrepressible smile on his face and a squirming grandson tucked under his arm.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

Skeptics who had been perplexed by Mr. Gehry’s squirming metallic shapes suddenly found them perfectly comprehensible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

It was almost worth having to go to school just to see everybody itching and squirming.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool