wriggle

Example Sentences

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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

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

Until we wriggle free, all we can do is document.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

I wriggle my feet out of my shoes and kick them over beside the door just as Mom and Dad come downstairs.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish