worm
noun
any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
will worm
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future tenseof worm.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Should win: Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight” “La La Land” will worm its way into your ears, forcing you to sing along for days after seeing it.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2017
Every semi-public utterance will find its way into the news; every available scrap of personal history will worm its way to daylight.
From Time ● Apr. 16, 2012
She is the kind of reporter who will worm her way into a room in a nursing home to interview an unsuspecting old lady, Roger’s mother.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2012
"Surely Mascarin will worm it all out of him to-morrow," returned the doctor.
From Caught in the Net by Émile Gaboriau
But dirt, bathing, etc., etc., followed unfairly, will worm him from his folly—so swear not.
From Roughing It, Part 7. by Mark Twain
