Example Sentences

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REVIEW: Jesse Plemons has a few squirmingly funny scenes as the super-awkward neighbor in 'Game Night' »

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2018

You want it to be deliciously scary, squirmingly exciting; you want to tantalize and shiver the senses and the intellect, not provide fodder for their eventual psychotherapy sessions.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2018

While fashion brands generally eschew the term, squirmingly avoiding its connotations of pumpkin spice lattés and yoga pants, designer Scott Sternberg fully embraced it for his new direct-to-consumer venture, the Entireworld.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2018

Intensely, at times squirmingly, intimate, it trots and sometimes meanders down twinned memory lanes as it revisits Ms. Reynolds’s and Ms. Fisher’s lives, their ups and downs, scandals and tchotchkes.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2016

He squirmingly demurred at this last operation, and successfully resisted it.

From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon