Example Sentences

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“Before you know it, white worms are wriggling and swarming in every garbage bag and along the walls and floors and underlids of every trash can.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Cowboys would scrape the wriggling larvae from wounds on cattle and smear the now-banned paste over it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

That question, along with Diamond’s ear worms, won’t stop wriggling in my brain.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

We gawked at the sea creatures — lobsters, soft-shell turtles, wriggling live eels — while she filled the cart.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2025

As it gets bigger it molts several times, splitting the old skin with its head and wriggling out, revealing stretchy skin underneath.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman