wriggle

The atmosphere became increasingly subdued again as it became obvious Djokovic was not going to be able to wriggle out of trouble on this occasion.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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

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

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026

A wriggle of the arms, a lifting first of the right foot, then the left: the zippicamiknicks were lying lifeless and as though deflated on the floor.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Teo wriggles down into the warmth of the duvet and snuggles into his mother.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

She wriggles her nose, rolls her eyes and turns her face to the side, trying not to completely cast me off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2024

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 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

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

Having gazed at it onscreen dozens of times, including in the hyper-crisp 16K resolution of the Sphere, this in-person viewing was the first time I realized how Bert Lahr wriggled it on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

The best example was when Sandy Baltimore had two players on her during the second goal and she wriggled away from them.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

The rats wriggled back into the trash heap and disappeared.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

“Before you know it, white worms are wriggling and swarming in every garbage bag and along the walls and floors and underlids of every trash can.”

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

The towering striker is technically gifted - comfortable wriggling it out of tight spaces and linking play - and has even been nicknamed 'Woltemessi' by Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 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

That was the signal for every Runner and every Bulldog on the lake to throw themselves onto a wriggling, groaning, growing pyramid of kids.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell