wriggle

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

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

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

Matthew Umhofer, an attorney representing the Alliance, said the city paid big money to Gibson Dunn in a failed attempt to wriggle out of its legal obligations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

The fierce man seemed less dangerous now, but Matt still tried to wriggle away.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Teo wriggles down into the warmth of the duvet and snuggles into his mother.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

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

He toddles to the fence and wriggles underneath like a worm.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

The best example was when Sandy Baltimore had two players on her during the second goal and she wriggled away from them.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

She said she slipped his grip, wriggled free and got away.”

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025

I wriggled it from my finger and laid it on the desk along with my wallet and paper guilders.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

“Before you know it, white worms are wriggling and swarming in every garbage bag and along the walls and floors and underlids of every trash can.”

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

“He doesn’t know he was in a movie,” said Leonberg, clasping a happily wriggling Indy, who doesn’t register me on the other end of the Zoom interview.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2025

The child was wriggling toward her, across his shoulder.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan