wiggling

Example Sentences

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You can bet that most Americans, meanwhile, will be wiggling their hips to “Dákiti.”

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2025

As they nibbled and play-snarled at her, the pup lay on her back, wiggling in glee.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025

Jared Isaacman emerged first, wiggling his limbs, hands and feet to test his suit.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2024

An accountant exasperatingly asks for a ballpark figure, and Escola’s Bernadette, wiggling like a charmed snake with their hands on their hips, asks, “Is this a ballpark figure?”

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2024

Other inhabitants use silence for cover—the lizards crawling on dead trees, the hordes of gnats hovering above our heads, and the worms wiggling in and out of the muddy swamp floor.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold