wriggle

The bill’s backers are hopeful it will wriggle through this legislative session and land on the governor’s desk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

When it comes to snake handlers, you must prepare for tales that wriggle free of containment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Clubs in the 2026-27 season also have to spend at least £5.4m, dubbed the new salary cap floor - this leaves less wriggle room if you wanted to bring in one player on big money.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

That’s exactly how the world’s villains want us to be: angry and afraid, trying to wriggle free from the spider’s web while they laugh and plot our demise.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

I wriggle and nose and bite and dig and claw and shove and push and squeeze and wriggle more and then SNAP!

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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 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

Pilar suggests they go to an exhibit at the Frick Museum, so Lourdes wriggles into her Chanel suit, the gold-coin buttons already straining across her middle, and they take the subway to Manhattan.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

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

Sargon purred as I came closer, and he wriggled in anticipation of a sweet belly-rub.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

It takes a big collective effort of a dozen or more people to drag the wriggling mass of snapper, mackerel, barracuda, rays, and many more fish besides, onto the beach.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Cowboys would scrape the wriggling larvae from wounds on cattle and smear the now-banned paste over it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Hours were marked by peals of screams following every uncovered worm wriggling in the corn silks, and each of us proudly showing off our inky fingertips from pressing out purple hull peas from their pods.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

Over a period of 20 years, he trained the programme's string of guide dogs, often appearing on TV surrounded by wriggling puppies.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024

He shuddered comfortably, wriggling to get further into the dried moss, downfeather and soft grass.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques