wriggle
verb (used without object)
to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
were wriggling
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past progressiveof wriggle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The year before, he’d shown us our first VCR tape, of a race from the Olympics: he pushed a button and suddenly the runners were wriggling backward, toward the starting line.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 2, 2018
Kat had a hand to her mouth and her fingers were wriggling like worms.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Then it crawled completely out of the green and onto the khaki and lost itself among dozens and dozens of other worms that were wriggling or just lolling about between the sea and the sky.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
The small-fry of fishes were wriggling in wonder to find themselves impounded in small pools.
From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by George W. Holley
I should like to have reasoned with them, for they evidently thought they were hidden, while, in fact, they were wriggling upside down, full in view.
From Fated to Be Free by Jean Ingelow
