Infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms.
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Examples for "cringing "
Examples for "cringing "
1 Tracy Morgan's interview on the US Today show left us all cringing .
2 He stopped and looked back at the people cringing in the doorways.
3 He saw men cringing as they neared the flames, heard children cry.
4 Marco was holding it at arms' length, almost cringing away from it.
5 The spirit loses its hopefulness and independence and becomes servile and cringing .
1 The dethroned monster lay grovelling on the floor, not daring to move.
2 The soldier was on his knees, grovelling with face against the floor.
3 Perkins screamed with mad fear and flung himself grovelling upon the floor.
4 She was pleased that all the Court should see her thus grovelling .
5 He paused, and fell back again to the ground, grovelling and speechless.
1 Let it never be forgotten that there is nothing groveling in Odd-Fellowship.
2 Somehow it sounded like groveling and I've never been good at that.
3 There's still the groveling next generation of underdog letters to send out.
4 He was shipped off to the Tower of London and died groveling .
5 Hammer was a ruthless tyrant, but he didn't tolerate groveling or cowardice.
1 It has an excessively long slender muzzle, and a wormlike extensile tongue.
2 Some are hairy caterpillars; others are smooth skinned and more wormlike .
3 Two unequal branches of the early wormlike organisms shrank into strong protective shells.
4 From other mouths, wormlike tentacles erupted, wriggled in the air, withdrew.
5 The tentacles protruding from her pinched, wormlike face writhed in irritation.
1 You're gonna drink to Crystal's memory with a glass of wormy water?
2 All bruised, wormy or injured apples should be discarded at picking time.
3 The arms of our backyard's apricot tree drooped with wormy fruit.
4 A few raindrops trickled onto the wormy chest they stood upon.
5 So if a bird happens to eat a parasitized caterpillar, it's bye-bye wormy .
6 She bucked and attempted to cough her wormy blood onto Eph.
7 And those things, the white flying wormy things, they came through.
8 First man-who'sthat wormy little shit with the portable drug factory?
9 The wormy thing instantly released its grip, slithering back into its own mouth.
10 Air whistled down to her, mixed with wormy slivers of fat.
11 Helen is fallen: that odd word always makes Fido think of a wormy apple.
12 Her heart was wormy , and the worms were eating very fast at it now.
13 Hogs also destroy many insects by eating the wormy fruit.
14 The company's generous supply was rancid grease and wormy flour.
15 Say, did you ever crack open a wormy English walnut?
16 Rabbits were " wormy " and the law prohibited the shooting of almost everything else.
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