wriggle

Example Sentences

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"You need to have some wriggle room" for when things go wrong, he added.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025

Now that it seems he can’t hide from the story entirely, Hegseth is trying to wriggle out from responsibility by blaming an underling, Adm.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025

Matthew Umhofer, an attorney representing the Alliance, said the city paid big money to Gibson Dunn in a failed attempt to wriggle out of its legal obligations.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 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

There were so many piles, you had to wriggle through their apartment in little pathways between the clutter, like you were stumbling through a tight maze.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore