worm
noun
any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
had wormed
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past perfectof worm.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A flaw had wormed its way into his technique at the start of those 1.3 seconds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
On this latest go-round, I was in therapy largely for approval: my therapist’s, yes, but also whatever prevailing cultural “wisdom” had wormed its way into my brain.
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2024
The exploits of the unbearable Brent and his long-suffering staff had wormed their way into the national consciousness and the show started to become a cult hit.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2021
“But somehow that insane, incurable, blinkered optimism that overtakes reason and leads otherwise normal men to stage musicals had wormed far too deep,” Lloyd Webber writes in his memoir, “Unmasked.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
The five of them had wormed their way up to the front of the auditorium.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
