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Meanings of wriggling 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
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
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.
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 wriggling in English
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.
6
It was like taking hold of a snake, strong, sinewy, and wriggling.
7
The men were wriggling nervously, and he ordered every second bale forward.
8
That should do it, he thought, wriggling down into his bed again.
9
A woman's skirts could not survive wriggling through small cracks and crevices.
10
She rose from the bed, wriggling into the arms of her dress.
11
Einar watched the boy wriggling away from them, working at his zipper.
12
You save your life by wriggling your foot out of your boot.
13
After that, escape was a matter of wriggling on down the drain.
14
He went off chattering like a woman and wriggling like an epileptic-
15
Gnawed and fingerless, the arm thrashed on the floor, wriggling toward him.
16
Lilith stood, wriggling her fingers to shed the last bit of ash.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Wriggling through the time
Wriggling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common