Example Sentences

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A group of Los Angeles consumers is taking a stand against so-called service fees that have increasingly weaseled their way onto cafe and restaurant bills across the country.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023

Instead, he has weaseled around, and presumably didn’t tell his mother not to make her despicable request to you—he surely knew what she was up to and didn’t even have the courage to warn you.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2021

It’s not the only comedy with pithy, repeatable dialogue that weaseled its way into our vernacular so completely that we started to forget about the source.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2018

The crest-tailed mulgara weaseled its way back into the park before the start of this conservation project.

From National Geographic • Dec. 18, 2017

Jennifer had weaseled the trip to Sutton’s out of her mother as a treat for me since that awful thing had happened to me at the Bakers'.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English