wriggle

Example Sentences

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Rather, she’s snared Millie in a trap while desperately trying to wriggle free from one herself.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

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

For decades, he tried to wriggle out of that typecasting to play kooks and himbos.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

It's a sufficiently vague term that allows them some wriggle room.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2025

Alone now, Matthias crossed the sunny field leading to the barn, just as Basil had taught him: zig-zag, crouch, wriggle and weave.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques