wriggle
verb (used without object)
to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
wriggles
Example Sentences
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It wriggles back into the streets aiming for friends, tunes, food.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Oliver is used to hospitals, but is fretful, and wriggles as the research nurse slowly injects the treatment, about a cup full, into a catheter in his chest.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
Darragh sticks out her tongue and wriggles it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
When a nematode wriggles around a petri dish, what’s going on inside a tiny roundworm’s even tinier brain?
From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2023
The greyhound wriggles away from her and trots over to a hole in the flimsy wooden wall and sniffs at it.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
