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Meanings of squiggle in English

A short twisting line.

Usage of squiggle in English
1
Nothing was written in the spill, but there was a squiggle -
Bag of Bones
2
X signed a work agreement with an illegible squiggle, and off we went.
Wired
3
She could see the Hudson River, a long, sinuous silver squiggle.
Dangerous Women
4
This squiggle here is the fork in the river, not an imitation wave.
Hula Done It?
5
One of them showed a triangle with a squiggle below.
The hangman's daughter
6
It resembled a triangle with a squiggle at the bottom.
The hangman's daughter
7
His forehead sprouted a cowlick, the skin beneath it revealing a vein's blue squiggle.
Mysterious Skin
8
It is Geary's job to take that squiggle and translate it into a real place.
The Irish Times
9
He let it fall and shatter, and looked up into the dark squiggle of branches.
Caleb's crossing
10
Each stone-curlew egg, for instance, has a dark brown squiggle pattern identifiable to its mother.
The Guardian
11
Just forested hills and the occasional squiggle of water through the trees-glimpsesof stream and river.
Pines
12
The pro signs her name with what looks like a B followed by an airy squiggle.
The Guardian
13
I can make a squiggle now with anyone.
On the Beach
14
It felt delicious to squiggle my toes again.
The power of one
15
That, or those cupcakes with the white squiggle.
Seeing stars
16
Real female ducks have such shapes, even spirals that squiggle in the direction opposite to male anatomy.
Wired
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Squiggle through the time