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Meanings of wiggling in English
Synonyms
Examples for "twisting"
Examples for "twisting"
1
You control how much water you want by twisting a simple knob.
2
Every evening was occupied in twisting and tying evergreen in the chapel.
3
And those words from Christopher Nolan's latest time-twisting spectacle speak for themselves.
4
Soane was twisting his corkscrew in the wire of the champagne bottle.
5
The twisting saps his energy but the doctors can't find anything wrong.
1
It is not quite clear what function all this overwrought writhing serves.
2
Yet he could still make out something thrashing within: rearing, reaching, writhing.
3
The man was choking and writhing upon the floor in his pain.
4
The writhing mass caromed from the wall and revolved toward the musicians.
5
He closed his cape over Mathilde's writhing form, hiding her from view.
1
At least twenty fishes and wriggling eels were smashed in the collision.
2
Jerking it up, I saw a fine pickerel wriggling in the sun.
3
The only sign of life was a slight wriggling of his tail.
4
Almost instantly the entire heavens became alive with wriggling serpents of light.
5
Martin approached Rex carefully, holding out a hand and wriggling his fingers.
1
A little surprise was squirming underneath the water, or perhaps several surprises.
2
The second shot of chemical started him coughing and squirming between them.
3
When Vivien kept squirming nervously, Beatrice reached over and held her hand.
4
Fanny tightened her hold of the little squirming bundle in her arms.
5
Father lifted me, squirming and trying to escape, and held me fast.
1
It is just her, the two freakish cat-things, and her wiggly fingers.
2
Their music, they note, is little more than prog-rock minus the wiggly instrumentals.
3
The salad was green and wiggly, but I took some, anyway.
4
The wiggly-white eyes stared back, as though puzzled by their owner's hopeless predicament.
5
Laurel's mouth morphed from a smile to a frown to a wiggly line.
1
A small, strange, wriggly blob of jelly emerged, pronged on his fork.
2
Down on the conveyor, something wriggly is working its way towards the platform.
3
Nicola Toki, DOC's threatened species ambassador celebrates this wriggly little fish.
4
The robot rose ecstatically into the air, pursuing a kind of wriggly path.
5
Lovely wet shining wriggly fellows; all the varieties of the fishmonger's slab and more.
Usage of wiggling in English
1
All the dolls went down in a wiggling heap on the floor.
2
Josef didn't answer, he just scowled and bent over, wiggling his foot.
3
Having a robot is not just a question of wiggling a lever.
4
Not that I'd come up with any thoughts on creative wiggling anyway.
5
She was holding a flat package in both hands, wiggling her fingers.
6
She had developed a genius for wiggling into thickets and just stopping.
7
Joel thinks he ought to tell him to stop wiggling his toes.
8
Lawrence was wiggling as if trying to free himself, his eyes wide.
9
The emptier yer belly is, the more room ye'll have fer wiggling.
10
It was a milky green color, and there was something wiggling inside.
11
He pointed all of his fingers at the ship, wiggling them furiously.
12
He had every intention of wiggling loose from the Suggses in Dodge.
13
Now she was wiggling into her panties under the towel, on schedule.
14
He felt his jaw again, wiggling it back and forth, then nodding.
15
The fellow was wiggling his fingers over the stones of the roof.
16
After wiggling the pen's tip, the two halves of the carving shifted.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Wiggling through the time
Wiggling across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common