wriggle
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They often wriggle off the hook and flop back into the water before I can catch and release.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
That’s exactly how the world’s villains want us to be: angry and afraid, trying to wriggle free from the spider’s web while they laugh and plot our demise.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
He could manipulate the ball and wriggle out of tight areas.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
Chelsea know there is wriggle room in the title race with meetings against Arsenal and City to follow later this month.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026
The Earthworm stood up on his tail and did a sort of wriggle of joy all by himself.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
Teo wriggles down into the warmth of the duvet and snuggles into his mother.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
When a nematode wriggles around a petri dish, what’s going on inside a tiny roundworm’s even tinier brain?
From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2023
The pain is in the waiting, for however long that may be, to see how "Strange New Worlds" wriggles the Enterprise out of this bind.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2023
He loves bananas and his large, porcine nose wriggles with contentment as he bites into one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
James wriggles out of my grasp, heads toward the tent opening.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Forty years ago in February, Jackson wriggled free of her father Joe Jackson’s stifling management with the release of “Control.”
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026
Servin remembered her daughter as a bubbly toddler with piercing blue eyes who wriggled with delight at the sight of Elmo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
James Justin wriggled free inside the Forest area and when his shot was saved by Ortega, he had the presence of mind to square the rebound to Okafor, who slotted home from 10 yards.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
She said she slipped his grip, wriggled free and got away.”
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
I wriggled my hand out of my work glove.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Cowboys would scrape the wriggling larvae from wounds on cattle and smear the now-banned paste over it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Rolling off the bed in a silicon sleep cocoon, Grace gradually evolves from a wriggling larval stage into a fully upright, walking and talking smarty-pants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
"I have two very small children so things can get very stressful at home," says Stella while holding on tight to a wriggling baby Evie.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
When he got there, everything was fine, except that her baby, he discovered, was one of two wriggling black mounds covered by swarms of black flies, which were "devouring the remnants of the placental membranes."
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2025
“What is it? What’s the—” In the distance her eyes found Joon, striding quickly back down the length of the dock, with Ess wriggling and kicking in her arms.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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