Example Sentences

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None came until Mrs. A. D. Peckham sued for damages because the blast had jiggled the eggs on which her 30 canaries were setting, ruined the hatch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even his 1975 memoirs were oddly out of focus, as if someone had jiggled his elbow every time he captured a memory.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had jiggled the door just so to unlock it—a little trick she knew—and jDios mio!

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

When I had jiggled the bell out at the house it was Maisie Ann who let me in and took the box of flowers and the boss's note.

From The Wreckers by Lynde, Francis