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

She will worm everything out of him, and a pretty business it will be then.’

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas

But dirt, bathing, etc., etc., followed unfairly, will worm him from his folly—so swear not.

From Roughing It, Part 7. by Twain, Mark