How To Use Squirm In A Sentence

Begin the meeting on time-or if possible sightly early - this will minimize chair squirming and lessen any build up of tension. Heads up staffers, tips to avoid a Health Care "Town Hell" (Blog for Democracy)
Men don't care how they look," said Thorny, squirming out of her hold, for he hated to be "cuddled" before people. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated
Ms. Fuchs believes the topic of safe sex isn't one where a parent can allow for a child to break down into the giggles and get squirmy. Mother Works to Make AIDS Education a Priority
The skin is not only tough but also loose, allowing it to squirm free from its attackers, and fight back with long claws and sharp teeth. Times, Sunday Times
She almost squirmed but the ropes wouldn't let her, and she tried to scream but the gag prevented her.

Garret fought the urge to squirm as he felt her eyes rake over him.
And the music had its natural squirminess, anxiety, and strangeness. New York Sun - All Articles
How to hold your squirming toddler still while attempting a diaper change or tushy wipe? Archive 2007-10-01
My children bring me great joy (especially as the little ones vacillate between squirming with curiosity and tittering with barely kept secrets in anticipation of Christmas).
The word mudslide made Bo’s sinking head pop into Corey’s mind, and his stomach squirmed, this time with nausea. The Good House
Commenting on the report, Coun Stoddard said: ‘There are things in here which I know would make people in certain areas of my ward squirm.’
Johnny was refusing to eat his Cheerios and was squirming in his chair as his mother tried to feed him.
Noelle didn't squirm or fidget, but she appeared uncomfortable.
Some of the world's top museum curators, art dealers and auctioneers should be squirming this week. Times, Sunday Times
Beetle was beside himself with frenzied excitement and squirmed into the car like a questing ferret. Times, Sunday Times
Nobody spoke for at least five minutes and Rachel squirmed in her chair with embarrassment.
A gastrotrich (meaning ‘hairy stomach’) uses myriad hairs over its head and belly to glide, wriggle, and squirm, looking for food.
We grasp the poignant loneliness of the elevator attendant, sigh when Rhoda is hurt and squirm at the office busybody's interference.
The concept of a centralized database containing a patient's entire medical history is the kind of timesaving and potentially life-saving innovation doctors yearn for, but the idea makes privacy watchdogs squirm.
He shoved his lean, hawklike face into the very center of the slimy, squirming mass, and with his several ancient fangs bit into the heart and the life of the matter. The Water Baby
But several of the groups seem a little squirmy in their new clothes.
She caught his shocked look and tried to hide a squirm.
This site will make your boss squirm as it lets you compare your salary with others in similar jobs as well as your colleagues.
He releases it, slides it deftly back into the paper, examines it again by the loupe, now lets it squirm in his palm, light reflecting sharply.
He squirmed out of the site as soon as the policemen appeared.
He caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror and squirmed at the sight of a balding old man with a pert nose and an infinity of lines on his face.
You can, if you make up your mind to it, prevent yourself from either wriggling, pulling your foot away, or giggling, when the sole of your foot is tickled; but if you happen to be at all "ticklish," it will take all the determination you have to do it, and some children are utterly unable to resist this impulse to squirm when tickled. A Handbook of Health
He squirmed and wiggled free of her grip and began exploring the corners of her bed.
At 26 lbs of squirminess, I was not going to carry him across the parking lot and up three flights of stairs. Toastcrumbs Diary Entry
Groaning, I could only squirm as more winds of biting cold nipped at my body.
Most of the goats cooperate with the necessary inconvenience of hoof trimming but some are skittish, squirmy, or agitated. Farm Journal: Harvesting, Husbandry, and Hoof Trimming
It had come out sounding like all the demons from hell, screaming in pain at the same time because someone had stoked the coals burning beneath their squirming pustular bodies. Zombies vs. Unicorns
Derek squirmed and writhed, trying to breathe.
The child squirmed free of the man's grasp and fell to the ground.
Under my thumb is the squirmin 'dog who's just had her day. The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards Looks Back At 'Life'
Explicit language makes a lot of us squirm because it's chock full of taboos: It's crude, it's naughty, it's raunchy, its real.
There are many situations which have women - and, though less often, men - squirming as to whether to slip in just one or two porkies.
The average foreigner is a tortured soul, trying desperately to discern any logic in the squirms and squiggles of an Indian road map.
I manage to cope with the indignity well, despite the patients and nurses almost wetting themselves with laughter at the sight of me squirming as the needle is inserted.
You squirm with embarrassment when you're meant to squeal with delight. Times, Sunday Times
Cerise smiles that annoying smile, doing the coy squirm.
How do you prepare people to squirm? Christianity Today
From where Solomon stood, he could see several of the folk squirm in response to having lost all excretory control.
Old alligators -- one couldn't call you men, and it's enough to make decent men squirm that you should be at large and be called by the same name -- can act like you and yet be considered respectable, but this is to show you what _decent_ women think of your likes, and their spirits are with us in armies to-night in what we are doing. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
Bagado got in and the car squirmed on the grit, the engine howling before the tyres caught and we kicked off the blocks. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
She squirmed back from the transom and sat up, capping the paint can and washing out the brush with turpentine, talking as she worked. CORMORANT
Beetle was beside himself with frenzied excitement and squirmed into the car like a questing ferret. Times, Sunday Times
He had squirmed and wriggled and screeched when his father had washed his face.
She squirmed above him, wriggling like a fish on a hook.
Yet he inexplicably let it squirm under his body and into the net. The Sun
Years ago people squirmed at the idea of a transplanted heart. Times, Sunday Times
The first debate question ever posed to fledgling presidential candidate Wesley Clark was one that might have made a practiced politician squirm.
But the ends to which it aspires are neither moderate, nor reasonable, and it gives me a squirmy feeling to contemplate them.
The trial came off in June of '91, and it's one of the regrets of my life that I was not present, if only to see stout Bertie in the witness-box, squirming under the inquisition of saucy jurors who didn't know their place, unlike the judge and counsel who grovelled to him something servile, and did everything but tote him in and out of court in a palankeen. Watershed
You can tell from body language too - people squirm when I bring up things like unemployment figures. The Sun
I shouted, squirming and twisting my arm, trying to get it out of his grip.
Some of what would have been considered normal childhood behavior - squirming, being moody - is now pathologized.
I say, Polly," lie said suddenly; "you don't know how kind of squirmy it made me feel, in there to-day, with all those little fellows, the one with the brace on his ankle, and the one with his eye tied up where they'd taken out a piece, and all the rest of them. Half a Dozen Girls
Chase stepped back and simply regarded me with an intent stare that made me squirm unconsciously.
Less than 2 weeks ago, Mr Heseltine had the party faithful squirming with delight at the Tory Party conference.
McAllister and his team-mates were made to squirm their way through a special screening of their 4-1 Saturday mauling by Middlesbrough.
His body squirmed and screamed like it was too fragile for his heavy soul.
Or it may simply be that dads would rather stay at the office, where everybody behaves like a grown up, than go home to the squirminess and bodily fluid-filled drudgery of family life. TIME.com: Top Stories
It was, by design, kissably sensuous, designed to arouse men and provoke the lust of masters; some girls are terrified to wear such lipstick; they know how it enhances their loveliness and proclaims them well as slaves; they understand well its intention and are seldom left long in doubt as to its effectiveness; had they originally entertained doubts as to its efficacy these doubts are often dispelled rapidly, as they squirm, naked and collared, perfumed, in the arms of a strong man, as it is being ruthlessly kissed from their lips. Guardsman Of Gor
Despite being a lactivist and breastfeeding in public, I had decided that this meeting was too important for me to be distracted by a squirmy newborn. Archive 2009-05-01
She paused and studied him for a long moment until he finally squirmed in discomfort.
Ben was quiet, he continued with his pizza slowly, dragging the process out just to watch her squirm.
Politicians make for an unedifying spectacle when they are cattle-prodded by party policy into squirming and writhing in unison.
For Sea Form, Bontecou raked wet printer's ink on a primed plastic surface to depict an ethereal, six-pointed star shape that evokes a feathery nest or squirming creature.
Because he squirmed in protest as she tried to remove his gilded, gemmed gauntlets, she had to leave them on.
She squirmed within his grasp, trying to free herself from his clutch, but it was no use.
MZS again: "Gleefully sensationalistic and paced like an adults-only shoot-'em-up video game, [The Hills Have Eyes 2 is] ultimately less interested in subversion and subtext than in making viewers squirm, shriek and throw up into their popcorn bags. GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
The Brits always approach the interview adversarially and ask tough, penetrating questions, and follow up, making the subject squirm (and it's not partisan -- they do it for left and right politicians, and indeed for non-politician interviewees.) Jesse Larner: Conservative Values?
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Frank declines to say whether he inherited anything, squirming with embarrassment when the issue is raised. Times, Sunday Times
Thankfully, the lieutenant had slipped into unconsciousness, instead of continuing to squirm and convulse in obvious discomfort due to the attack on his nervous system. Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
Jean beamed at his mother, squirmed out of her lap, and scooted a few feet across the floor before she scooped him up again.
At first, Pearl had gone too, but Pearl yawned and squirmed and elbowed Jane to whisper, Would it be rude to leave early? Uprising
Then, like an overloaded video screen it slowly, slowly became a nauseous fluxion of repulsive colors-and it was squirming! The Dragon Lensman
Words Microsoft Word squirms at: Well, just obmutescence. I need you so much closer
If nothing else, I knew that I would enjoy the spectacle of it uncomfortably squirming through the minefields of its own institutional political correctitude.
Labour MPs sat there, squirming away. Times, Sunday Times
What's more, both of the boys read this site on occasion, which makes me feel even more squirmy about all the commentary.
She squirmed back from the transom and sat up, capping the paint can and washing out the brush with turpentine, talking as she worked. CORMORANT
I could hardly keep still, squirming and wriggling all the time.
There were tears in the audience too, but also not a little squirming at the emotional pyrotechnics.
The noise in the tunnel was deafening, the dust-filled air practically unbreathable, and in some places the rock drilled out ahead had to be scooped up by hand, passed under the stomach, and kicked back with the feet to men with buckets who, in turn, had to squirm back to the face of the cliff to dump their loads. Colossus
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Then I squirmed out of my cramped bed and wrig - gled snakewise to the right; once behind brush, I got to my feet, my dart gun drawn. Three Against The Witch World
Once unleashed by its gloomy keeper Hades (Ralph Fiennes), the squirmy sea monster is ready to devour Princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) and destroy the rebellious city of Argos.
She hiked up her skirt and put her thumbs into her panty hose, yanked and squirmed.
So it seems only right and proper to squirm into a drysuit, don an aqualung and slip through a dark, forbidding hole in the frozen waters at Tignes-Le-Lac to avoid the blizzard conditions.
You can tell from body language too - people squirm when I bring up things like unemployment figures. The Sun
The taut dialogue raises a squirming smorgasbord of questions about the potential for bedlam when our profound individual differences are ignored.
He then proceeds to make a thunderous sound that always makes me jump and squirm with embarrassment if we are in public. Times, Sunday Times
He squirmed and struggled, dabbing at the air with the injured as well as the uninjured forepaw and increasing his pain. CHAPTER XXIII
It was heavy, and the carrying of it was a queer sensation, inasmuch as it squirmed and "yipped" vociferously in transit, threatening so unmistakably to hatch in my hand that I was decidedly nervous. The Diary of a Goose Girl
He received no applause, and he squirmed through the ropes, snakelike, into the arms of his seconds, who help ed him to the floor and supported him down the aisle into the crowd. Chapter 6
The taut dialogue raises a squirming smorgasbord of questions about the potential for bedlam when our profound individual differences are ignored.
The little creature squirmed in its death agonies.
Also, he called me names like, `Little squirmy toad' and `Nauseating worm", and others what I didn't hear properly. SAMSON SUPERSLUG
A 2-year-old British-born Little Owl (Athene noctua), Bibi is especially chatty when Kobayashi's wife brings out a plastic container squirming with grubs. News On Japan
Too many film-makers want the scream of shock at a big moment but forget that the real pleasure is the squirms and screams that come in the build up.
He and Kat made peanut brittle and he promptly squirmed off Karl's lap to get him a piece.
What has many on the left squirming in their toddler seats due to the uncomfortable dampness in their tush was a speech made by our President to the Israeli Knesset celebrating the State of Israel's 60th birthday. Right Truth
You squirm with embarrassment when you're meant to squeal with delight. Times, Sunday Times
He squirmed as she came down the aisle.
It may have you squirming in discomfort, but it is very funny nonetheless. Times, Sunday Times
I turned in shortly before dawn feeling not half bad; it was snug and jolly to see Susie snoring away in the dim candle-light, with one fine tit peeping out among the frills; I nibbled away until she squirmed into wakefulness, whereafter we set to partners, celebrating the first civilised bed we'd occupied since the Planter's Hotel, if you like. Isabelle
Admit it - deep down inside us plods patronisingly known as ‘the public’ love to see the rich and famous squirm.
The unrated version of Man Bites Dog is very squirm inducing, I agree.
At that moment Michael was lying squirming on his back a dozen feet away, his legs straight up in the air, both fox-terriers worrying with well-stimulated ferociousness. CHAPTER VII
What's so squirmy about his attacks is they are one of degree, or emphasis, and therefore cannot be easily refuted. Discourse.net: Of Koh, Johnsen ... and Bork
She squirmed and writhed and twisted, genuinely this time, but she was small anyway, and Sarah was strong, and so she wasn't going anywhere.
Christy gave a guilty squirm and immediately put her mind in full reverse, attempting to block out the next few sentences.
Grace and Willies peered into an aquarium, and to Willie's delight and Grace's horror, saw dozens of squirmy striped creatures slithering over each other.
The source said: 'A few people squirmed in their seats. The Sun
These slabs seemed composed of infinite numbers of small squirmy things, like animated numbers or letters. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Every time they told her to sit still she wiggled and squirmed as much as she could.
Cradle it like a small bird or clasp it tightly like a squirming cat.
The little boy squirmed with shame.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The mistreatment of child orphans, the poor and the women in this era is viscerally staged, making the audience squirm agonizingly in their seats.
The child wriggled and squirmed, trying to pull himself out of their grasp.
Let us not delight in making others squirm by humiliating or embarrassing them in public.
I expect that along with all the demon-crats squirming in their shoes, so are awhole lot of the repubbies. Rove: Palin's resignation lacks clear strategy
I heard a voice say something like “stop squirming” and with a wrench the pain flared once more and subdued. Archive 2009-07-01
I'll not mention the fact that I could actually hear the audience squirm with every failed delivery.
The cat yowled and squirmed, anticipating another long car ride. Rogue Oracle
But the ends to which it aspires are neither moderate, nor reasonable, and it gives me a squirmy feeling to contemplate them.
This wasn't supposed to happen - the plan was to make the boss squirm as he continued to act straight.
Your son feels pushed aside and the whole situation probably makes him squirm. The Sun
The audience loved it while the man squirmed with embarrassment. Times, Sunday Times
Beetle was beside himself with frenzied excitement and squirmed into the car like a questing ferret. Times, Sunday Times
Hypothetically speaking, what does it mean if your poop is multicolored, slightly glowing, and squirming? jeligula Science Question from a Toddler: Why is poop brown? Boing Boing
Sam looked down at his hands and squirmed, his legs damp against the leather chair.
Years ago people squirmed at the idea of a transplanted heart. Times, Sunday Times
He was squirming on the floor in agony.
Quickly repeating these jaw movements, the threadsnake ratchets the squirmy prey farther and farther down the hatch.
Words Microsoft Word squirms at: dirtmage, bannerman, barkcrabs, overshirt Books in 2008, #39
Frankie Dettori squirms when recalling the moment his credibility as a top class jockey was brought into question.
He fidgets, squirms, runs and climbs in situations where being seated is expected.
The squirmy wonders play as nicely in raised beds as they do in a moist compost bin. Avital Binshtock: Gifts That Keep on Living
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This boy and my son were squirmy and they wanted to run outside at night and play on the sidewalk now that their ice cream was done.
But it sure would be fun and a bit adventurous to ask white liberal, socialist folk that same question just to see 'em squirm .... folks like hitler-y clintoon, garrison keeler, chrissy mathews, and/or keith older-man! Latest Articles
He would have wrestled her into coffs, and she woulda had a wrenched shoulder socket, a broken wrist, etc from her squirming against him like she was. Latest Articles
Mentioning religion is a sure way to make him squirm.
What's so squirmy about his attacks is they are one of degree, or emphasis, and therefore cannot be easily refuted. Discourse.net: Of Koh, Johnsen ... and Bork
They squirmed, shrivelled and after a brief struggle, gave up the ghost.
Labour MPs sat there, squirming away. Times, Sunday Times
In the pinworm soup there were squirming iridescent protozoa, single-celled giants that were almost as big as the multicellular worms. Parasite Rex
They could have fixed this and didn't (include holdings for teenier libraries or offer cut rate "holdings only" sorts of memberships) so I'm not totally unhappy watching them squirm over this a little. MetaFilter Projects
Christine squirmed uncomfortably in her chair.
Extends hands, legs and body to you for "pick me up"; looks down to floor, squirms and fusses, meaning "put me down"; expressionless stare means "I'm bored"; cranky and nothing soothes means "I'm tired. My daily life experience...
She is constantly on the move, leaping up or squirming in her seat when she has a point to make, or a writer to quote.
But if going into stores that carry smaller sizes truly makes her squirm, don't beg her to go in.
hush hush the sea-soft night is aswim with wrinklesquirm creatures listen(! ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
She squirmed a bit until she was engulfed by the blankets - and the warmth that they brought with them.
He had squirmed and wriggled and screeched when his father had washed his face.
I squirm away slightly, towards my side of the bed. Times, Sunday Times
It is not, shall we say, the only unguarded comment that has our club chaperone squirming. Times, Sunday Times
Tanj did her best to shrug, a motion that came out as a squirm more than anything.
Squirming in her chair, like an infant awkwardly awakening from a thoughtful sleep, Jane rubbed her makeup-less eyes and yawned.
Whatever the reason, some lenders are squirming out of deals to refinance home loans at rates below 6 percent.
Hoss had squirmed restlessly, obviously having a tale to unburden, but uncertain where to begin.
As they chattered a small striped viper squirmed on top of the map with tongue flickering from open fangs.
He gave a feeble shrug and tried to squirm free.
Whether that means I'm more likely to logroll his novel, or minimize it just to imagine his squirm, I leave to your judgement. Kenneth Hite's Journal
Beetle was beside himself with frenzied excitement and squirmed into the car like a questing ferret. Times, Sunday Times
Guitarist Dimitri Coats, best known for the band Burning Brides, hammers out his riffs like a drummer and, in a live version, offers a pithy solo that recalls the atonal squirm of Black Flag founder Greg Ginn. NPR Topics: News
Nobody spoke for at least five minutes and Rachel squirmed in her chair with embarrassment.
My brother and I were brought over by a coyote who took us to a remote location where we had to squirm under a fence and then run for dear life.
He squirmed and wriggled, ignoring the pain I know he must be feeling.
I squirmed around on the floor looking between the stacked columns for something with an edge. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
The other twin let out another squeal followed by a squirm.
The tall woman just squirmed, being very ticklish.
I could hardly keep still, squirming and wriggling all the time.
They were lying utterly still or squirming in discomfort, some cradling injured arms.
At parties, I'd be quick to blab endlessly about this guy's strange, staggering genius -- and such blab would often elicit squirmy body-language and yucked-out faces. Taking sides: Does a performer's personal behavior matter?
I have to say it has been bliss not being subject to his constant prattle, and I have taken a certain sadistic pleasure in seeing him squirm when he is forced to talk to me when I assign him unpleasant work tasks.
Watching Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi, France's President Nicholas Sarkozy and other world leaders squirm with embarrassment walking next to Gaddafi decked out in flamboyant, clownish uniforms straight from an Italian "opera buffo" was always amusing. Eric Margolis: Gaddafi: The Fox Is Cornered
The journey to wartime Buchenwald has been described as an interminable winter train trip, prisoners shoved so tightly into a wooden cattle car that their skin froze to the person next to them, turning the unfortunate passengers into one giant, barely squirming block of ice. The Lampshade
Accustomed to the idle weight of my right hand to holding down a paper, my elbow now presumed to grind onto a shamelessly writhing, squirming sheet as I untiringly applied ink to its white plane. A Disobedient Hand
Something made me turn back, I had to talk to the man who makes politicians, generals, statesmen, policy makers, backroom boys, show biz people squirm, simper, and sob.
The letter gives rise to a pleasurable squirm, somewhere deep in my stomach.
Beyond doubt, the boy had broken the taboos, and privily he told him so, until Lamai trembled and wept and squirmed abjectly at his feet, for the penalty was death. CHAPTER XIV
She squirmed, writhed, and wriggled, trying to evade the grip of those carrying her.
He carries himself like a street reporter, ready to move fast or stand still for hours, and squirms at any attention others give to the man holding the pen.
He squirmed and struggled, dabbing at the air with the injured as well as the uninjured forepaw and increasing his pain. CHAPTER XXIII
Watching a Mayo team squirm in defeat is indeed a welcome sight.
As I refastened the shirt, Katie shifted, squirmed and meowed.
But to watch yuppie parents squirm with dread and confusion when anything in their households goes on the fritz is to wonder whether it was such a bad thing for one half of the marriageable population to know how to mend a fallen hem and the other to have rudimentary knowledge of the workings of a fuse box. Leaving It to the Professionals
The arms of the octopuses were still squirming and moving and flopping in every direction.
It is not, shall we say, the only unguarded comment that has our club chaperone squirming. Times, Sunday Times
This disparity in treatment is the effect of ersatz social Marxism which is very brave in its deconstruction of benign authority but squirms gutlessly in the face of Islam. Fight ! Fight ! Fight !
She tried to pick him up but he was squirming and twisting to lick her face so much that she had to set him down.
The comedy is of the sort that leaves you squirming with embarrassment. Times, Sunday Times
But finding a mass of squirming roundworms is an unaesthetic experience, so fish from infected ponds are banned from being marketed fresh and can be sold only to processing plants, which pay much less.
Matsa squirmed to look at what had pinned him to the ground, hoping it wasn't a talking goose.

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