wriggle

Example Sentences

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She expressed a desire for more wriggle room in the spreadsheets against her self-imposed fiscal rules – so-called "headroom".

From BBC

Oliver is used to hospitals, but is fretful, and wriggles as the research nurse slowly injects the treatment, about a cup full, into a catheter in his chest.

From BBC

Harry Tuazon, now a bioengineering Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, caught a glimpse of this nearly instantaneous response when he observed blackworms wriggling across a petri dish in the lab.

From Scientific American

Congress has been at this crossroads before and has previously managed to wriggle out of the impasse without devastating consequences.

From New York Times

By the time she’s finished, Logan, Jaxton and Caden are left wriggling in agony as if under a moral microscope, reduced to saying things like, “We see color but we don’t speak for it.”

From New York Times