wriggle

Then, the males wriggle up and twist and wrap around them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

"I would see a child try to wriggle away or stand up and walk off, but he'd say, 'sit here and we're going to read a book'."

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

The rules allowed some wriggle room for Japan to ship weapons and components to key partners under joint-development programs deemed critical to Japan’s security, such as ballistic missile defense systems developed with the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Now that it seems he can’t hide from the story entirely, Hegseth is trying to wriggle out from responsibility by blaming an underling, Adm.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

I wriggle through the opening at the bottom of the fence and come up in the Meadow, just a stone’s throw from my home.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Ulster break forward with a darting run from Stuart McCloskey, who gives it out to Rob Baloucoune and runs into trouble as he wriggles his way inside as Clermont survive a scare.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 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

He loves bananas and his large, porcine nose wriggles with contentment as he bites into one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

“Don’ mind if it wriggles a bit, I think I still got a couple o’ dormice in one o’ the pockets.”

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

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

After being slipped down the right by Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, O'Hare wriggled his way through three defenders before slipping a cheeky toe-poke past Ruddy.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023

They grew amazingly fast—so fast that their skin split open every few days and they wriggled out of it—“just as a person,” she noted, “pulls off a shirt over his head.”

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

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

Rolling off the bed in a silicon sleep cocoon, Grace gradually evolves from a wriggling larval stage into a fully upright, walking and talking smarty-pants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

If you are wriggling in the gigantic, sticky net of grief that is our national gloom, falling in with “The Pitt” may not seem like the right medicine for this moment.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026

"I have two very small children so things can get very stressful at home," says Stella while holding on tight to a wriggling baby Evie.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025

John had heard it, too, and had responded by wriggling, and moving his hands in the air, and making noises, meant, she supposed, to be taken for a song.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin