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In other dramatic scenes, protesters were seen holding on to one another as they were dragged to waiting buses -- only for them to later wriggle out from the driver's seat or the rear window.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

"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

I circled around it and knelt down, and that’s when I noticed a small hole in the floor at the tomb’s base, no bigger than a fist—just large enough for a bird to wriggle through.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

The greyhound wriggles away from her and trots over to a hole in the flimsy wooden wall and sniffs at it.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

As he wriggled under the bench, he smiled, realizing that Pax would have chosen this same spot—protected, but with a good vantage point—if he wanted a rest.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

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

"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

They milled in the room to music between sessions with partners, shaking off awkwardness by wriggling their arms, swinging their hips, jumping or full-on dancing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

When he got there, everything was fine, except that her baby, he discovered, was one of two wriggling black mounds covered by swarms of black flies, which were "devouring the remnants of the placental membranes."

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2025

I looked at the sky, feeling all sorts of wriggling anxious thoughts, but even I knew it was getting too dark to go tonight.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones