wriggle
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They often wriggle off the hook and flop back into the water before I can catch and release.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Rather, she’s snared Millie in a trap while desperately trying to wriggle free from one herself.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
"You need to have some wriggle room" for when things go wrong, he added.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
She expressed a desire for more wriggle room in the spreadsheets against her self-imposed fiscal rules – so-called "headroom".
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
The rat squealed, trying to wriggle his way out of Clare’s paws.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
As her three-year-old daughter wriggles on her lap and plays with her mother's hair, Rebecca gives an honest assessment of what dealing with poverty means for her.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
Darragh sticks out her tongue and wriggles it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
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 pain is in the waiting, for however long that may be, to see how "Strange New Worlds" wriggles the Enterprise out of this bind.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2023
It bucks and wriggles and then jumps forward, bending at the edges to fit through the open doorway.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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
James Justin wriggled free inside the Forest area and when his shot was saved by Ortega, he had the presence of mind to square the rebound to Okafor, who slotted home from 10 yards.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
She said she slipped his grip, wriggled free and got away.”
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
Huw Jones wriggled through traffic and got it to Darcy Graham, who stepped, slithered and scarpered away from the Wallabies.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024
All through that starless night, your breath came in wheezy gasps as raindrops wriggled, like silver snakes, through the gaps in our tent.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
“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
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
They milled in the room to music between sessions with partners, shaking off awkwardness by wriggling their arms, swinging their hips, jumping or full-on dancing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
We gawked at the sea creatures — lobsters, soft-shell turtles, wriggling live eels — while she filled the cart.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025
The imaginary worms wriggling around in Ekon’s stomach settled momentarily.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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