wriggle

Example Sentences

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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 Premier League has added some wriggle room, too, with a multi-year rolling allowance of 30% that permits clubs to spend beyond the limit.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

In every instance, Hank and Peggy, but mainly Hank, wriggle in their discomfort before settling into a kind of peace with whatever occurs.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2025

An unholy specimen, a building creature that is sufficiently weird, necessary, and profitable to wriggle to life in the city’s stifling landscape of land-use regulations: the double duplex.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2025

To reach them, the men had to crawl on hands and knees over the stone ballast, then wriggle forward on their stomachs over the crates of stores.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong