wiggle
verb (used without object)
to move or go with short, quick, irregular movements from side to side.
had wiggled
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past perfectof wiggle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Maynor had wiggled her way near the front of the line, but the group made it only a few hundred feet.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Her name was Patricia Schmidt, but she had wiggled her way along the honky-tonk circuit from Chicago to Trinidad as "Satira."
From Time Magazine Archive
Hopes that he might got a ticklish boost from reports that one of the Governor's toes had wiggled in an involuntary reflex reaction when his son George touched it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here Kalo had wiggled one of his pinky fingers.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
She had wiggled her way far back under the thorny limbs of a blackberry bush in the comer of the garden.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
