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
It is by getting possession of other people’s secrets, that you will worm out your own.”
From Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat
If the servants know it, Manderton will worm it out of them.
From The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams
