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Meanings of squirming in inglés
Sinónimos
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
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 squirming in inglés
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.
6
He was squirming in his chair and I felt depressed and uneasy.
7
As she clung to the squirming puppy and stared, Lizzie came in.
8
Five miles of winding and squirming, twisting and ducking, dodging and summersaulting.
9
Let others go seek the Shark, the Sword-fish, or the squirming Cuttle-fish.
10
I stopped squirming, hoping my acquiescence would signal him to step back.
11
She could remember her, squirming and spluttering in her high nursery chair.
12
Not here! I said, squirming away and pushing my skirt down again.
13
He looked closely at the row of six squirming bunches of squeals.
14
When the change is completed there begins a violent twisting and squirming.
15
Lily, make him tell me, Charlie said, squirming against her seat belt.
16
He lifted the squirming small boy who had not spoken a word.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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