wriggle
verb (used without object)
to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
have wriggled
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present perfectof wriggle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Column: Lawbreaking corporations have wriggled off the hook for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
It is not a real camera—if it had been a real camera, she would have wriggled and squirmed and wondered how she would look in the picture.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
Other Cisbots have wriggled through utility pipes in Brooklyn, in Massachusetts and in Britain and Ireland.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
Every Monday quarterback knows that Grange could never have wriggled into the nation's headlines without Britton.
From Time Magazine Archive
I would have wriggled just a bit, but each time I looked over at Momma, she seemed to threaten, “Move and I’ll tear you up,” so, obedient to the unvoiced command, I sat still.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
