wriggle

In other dramatic scenes, protesters were seen holding on to one another as they were dragged to waiting buses -- only for them to later wriggle out from the driver's seat or the rear window.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Protected by their cipher and full of vim, the Americans were under a blanket of surveillance in Moscow so heavy that they couldn’t wriggle out long enough to meet refuseniks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Then, the males wriggle up and twist and wrap around them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The central midfielder is Panama's tempo setter and creative spark, working tirelessly in and out of possession and showcasing an impressive ability to wriggle out of tight spaces and drive the team upfield.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

When I move my fingers, they wriggle and I momentarily envision them detaching and crawling away.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

It wriggles back into the streets aiming for friends, tunes, food.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Oliver is used to hospitals, but is fretful, and wriggles as the research nurse slowly injects the treatment, about a cup full, into a catheter in his chest.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025

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

For example, a photon can be polarized so that the electric field in it wriggles vertically, horizontally, or both ways at the same time—at least until it’s measured.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 20, 2022

The greyhound wriggles away from her and trots over to a hole in the flimsy wooden wall and sniffs at it.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

He has an incredible gift for crafting earworms, and his Queens cadence and variable-volume delivery has wriggled its way into American speech patterns.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

A child wriggled screaming out of her father's arms, just after the pope said "Peace be upon you" and the avenue fell silent.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 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

She said she slipped his grip, wriggled free and got away.”

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025

JimmyTrotter patted her head until she wriggled away.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

It takes a big collective effort of a dozen or more people to drag the wriggling mass of snapper, mackerel, barracuda, rays, and many more fish besides, onto the beach.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

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

Hours were marked by peals of screams following every uncovered worm wriggling in the corn silks, and each of us proudly showing off our inky fingertips from pressing out purple hull peas from their pods.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

“I want to ride on the bike too,” Raymond wailed beside me, wriggling his hand out of mine.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago