squiggle

Richards’s signature style is to break down complex behavioral-finance concepts into minimalist line drawings — sometimes just a squiggle — with only a few words.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

"That's what happened here. We had all sort of noticed this fishhook squiggle on the rock. It was pretty prominent because it was really, really deep."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024

Grooves in the hillside squiggle down toward a pasture and bike path at its base.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024

I prefer a sprinkling of salt, a bed of raw onions and cilantro and a squiggle of green salsa.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

He drew each squiggle and explained what it meant.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

The floor was so grubby that the thought of sitting anywhere on it was nauseating — and regardless, the lanes were now too dark for reading, lit primarily by bright neon stripes and squiggles.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

In this script, the lines of good and evil aren’t drawn in black and white or even gray — they’re a tangle of squiggles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

The genus name uncus means “hook” in Latin, after the fishhooklike squiggles on the rock left by the fossils.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 19, 2024

EEGs use small sensors attached to the scalp to measure the brain's electrical signals, producing a long line of up and down squiggles.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

I held the skate edge and scraped it against the locker, over the words, and in a few seconds it was a barren waste of squiggles.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

Yields squiggled following the latest batch of reports on the economy.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

The book, compiled between 1967-1968, features Sir Paul McCartney's draft of the famous song alongside poetry and doodles squiggled by the music legend.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2022

Over the course of a profoundly productive journalism career, he was able to translate all those squiggled notes into some of the finest long-form writing The Post has ever published.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2020

Vegetable-focussed appetizers include marinated shishito and Jimmy Nardello peppers, for layering on crusty toast with thickly squiggled ricotta that’s been whipped until it’s as densely creamy as labneh.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 23, 2018

Like some fairytale tailor, he threaded the end through the maze, dipping and doodling through openings the way he squiggled a football through a defense.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

Some look like earthworms and others are covered in tiny bristles, squiggling about.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2022

Squeeze the chocolate onto the lined baking sheet, swirling or squiggling the lines to make decorative shapes.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2022

The casual-looking moves include a squiggling elbow, a lowering to one knee, fingers tapping the soles of feet.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

It's great for squiggling on a slice of pizza or on top of a bowl of fried rice, and its flavor can be found carried into all types of food products.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2021

Taking infinite care, the BFG unscrewed the top of the glass jar and tipped the squiggling squirming faintly scarlet trogglehumper into the wide end of his long trumpet.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl