How To Use Wriggle In A Sentence
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And how much they wriggle about.
The Sun
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She managed to wriggle away from him and run home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sure enough, Fishy tugged the rod back and clicked the button and a shiny fish wriggled directly in front of Lazarus' nose.
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A dropped tail continues to wriggle, keeping the attention of the predator focused on it while the prey makes its escape.
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Local ghillie David Dinsmore took a small party of Scouts to Addergoole river last Saturday, where all were surprised by the variety of tiny fish life that crawl, swim or wriggle on the river bed.
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Was she trying to wriggle free of boutique theatre?
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She reached the rocks and wriggled through them, moving her feet gently through the water.
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Instead, they were almost allowed to wriggle free.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wriggle brought Shawn into a half wakeful state and he groggily inhaled a faintly flowery scent.
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Ivory screamed as she wriggled and twisted, trying in vain to get away.
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Fuzzy wriggled himself into an ingratiatory attitude and essayed the idiotic smile and blattering small talk that is supposed to charm the budding intellect of the young.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million
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He wriggled around in her arms, then turned and butted his head against her shoulder, lightly but repeatedly.
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Can't be too pedicular in a pinch," he grinned as he wriggled dubiously into the dry garments, and in a few minutes he was seated beside the girl upon a rough bench drawn close to the fire.
The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
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Bare branches grow out of one end, while shoots sprout out from the other, smiling snakes wriggle around and a baby bird emerges from an egg.
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A gastrotrich (meaning ‘hairy stomach’) uses myriad hairs over its head and belly to glide, wriggle, and squirm, looking for food.
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The snake makes it wriggle so that the apparently disembodied filament appears to be some kind of succulent worm.
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My daughter and I would like to thank them and Miss Wrigglesworth for rearranging her schedule.
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Forest had aimed to wriggle clear of the bottom three for the first time in almost four months.
The Sun
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With an awkward wriggle, he dragged his head clear.
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Why bother to wriggle out of accepting that Ecclestone was a fat donor?
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A team from Tohoku University led by Satoshi Tadokoro is apparently en route to Sendai with a snakelike robot that can wriggle into debris to hunt for people.
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Margot pouted, and wriggled her shoulders inside her white blouse.
Big Game A Story for Girls
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An arm wriggled under one of his knees, and after a bit of work, she shoved it free and raised it to grab a hunk of hair, dragging at his head.
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She then wriggled her fingers within the gloves and ran them across a glass counter.
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There are also fears that insurers will try to wriggle out of claims by downgrading the value of homeowners' damage.
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She wriggled free after the raiders fled the boat.
The Sun
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She wriggled off the windowsill and scrambled onto the stone wall, ignoring the twinges of pain in her damaged wrist.
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She tried to wriggle away without waking him but she could barely move.
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Sunderland might have gone further ahead when leading scorer Stephen Elliott wriggled into the penalty area only to drive his shot into the side netting.
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With a wriggle, she managed to crawl through the gap.
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It wriggled slightly under her touch, swaying from side to side.
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He had squirmed and wriggled and screeched when his father had washed his face.
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When I caught that dridful little reptil by the arm, he wriggled like a sniggled eel, so I was forced you see, to grasp him something tighter, and could feel his little arm-bones crack like any chicken's: now then, if his left elbow an't black and blue, though it's a month a-gone and more, I'll eat it.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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She wriggled and kvetched, though she seemed happier in the Next Gen ep before that.
Committee meetings
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Particularly ‘ticklish’ individuals wriggle and writhe in apparent agony, as well as laughing hysterically, when being tickled.
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In some eating establishments it appears to be a serious crime for your offspring to talk above a whisper or wriggle slightly in their seats.
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He promised he'd help me decorate, but now he's trying to wriggle out of it.
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After three days the maid wriggled free and used the rope to climb out of a window.
Times, Sunday Times
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The baby wriggled, all limbs kicking and waving happily.
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The snake wriggled through the grass.
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Just saying his name, feeling his name wriggle off my tongue was enough to make me go weak inside - not that my insides were all ready like slop from just seeing him and hearing his gorgeous voice.
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The author is clearly one of the most accident-prone chefs of all time, but a world-class wriggler out of trouble.
Times, Sunday Times
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He knows he's in a bit of a tight situation, but this is a guy who has wriggled out of one tight situation after another for 34 years, and he seems quite confident that he can do it again.
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Verlust watched expectantly, and was rewarded by a wriggle in the vegetation that didn't match the movement of the rest in the soft breeze.
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Those hatchways weren't really meant for human access, but she was a little double-jointed so she'd been able to wriggle up and into the ship without too much problem.
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She glances at the window which, as it was for Wendy, is too small to wriggle out of.
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And how much they wriggle about.
The Sun
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The tunnel was low and dark, but she managed to wriggle through to the other side.
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But she recoiled in horror when the poisonous Chilean rose spider wriggled into life.
The Sun
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They do so with minimal effort, with an occasional wriggle of a flank and a sideways motion of a tail.
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Roaming gaggles of extremely ditsy young gels wriggle in and out of designer coffee bars.
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Moses is trying to wriggle out of his mission by highlighting possible contingencies and his own inadequacy.
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She wriggled free after the raiders fled the boat.
The Sun
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Desperate attempts to find wriggle room to justify or excuse bad decisions are a waste of time and creative energy.
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A large worm wriggled in the freshly dug earth.
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It cited an agreement that the bosses want to wriggle out of.
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Forest had aimed to wriggle clear of the bottom three for the first time in almost four months.
The Sun
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The roach enjoyed sliming its way across the human food stored in the kitchen, and occasionally it would wriggle through a child's hair in the middle of the night, just for fun, but that was all petty revenge.
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I snickered, snorted, and even laughed out loud as the vaunted pundits lied, alibied, and wriggled out of their share of responsibility for the mess in which our nation now finds itself.
1984, HERE WE COME!
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With a wriggle, she managed to crawl through the gap.
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The thieves left her tied up with rope but she wriggled free.
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Was she trying to wriggle free of boutique theatre?
Times, Sunday Times
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You'll never stow yourself away on board my brig again, will you?" asked our flagellator of each of us alternately, with an alternate lash across our backs to give emphasis to his question, making us jump up from the deck and quiver all over, as we tried in vain to wriggle out of the lashings with which we were tied.
On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
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Another eco-friendly technique is that of luring mosquitoes to lay eggs in strategically placed vessels of water and then throwing off the water along with the wrigglers.
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But they were silent in amazement and expectation when they saw the mighty white ape wriggle upon the back of their king, and, with steel muscles tensed beneath the armpits of his antagonist, bear down mightily with his open palms upon the back of the thick bullneck, so that the king ape could but shriek in agony and flounder helplessly about upon the thick mat of jungle grass.
The Beasts of Tarzan
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All the students took great pleasure in watching the worms wriggle around and begin to settle into their new home.
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She reaches up her skirt, wriggles, yanks free an enormous, elastic, tan girdle.
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But don't leave go and be prepared to tighten your grip if there is another wriggle.
Good Habits, Bad Habits
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The thief wriggled out of the old man's grip.
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Even for the little wrigglers we can see on specially stained microscope slides, such as the dreaded syphilitic spirochete, there is no Date of Receipt that comes with the dose.
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But West Ham let them wriggle free as they squandered those three crucial chances.
The Sun
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We know them by many names: grub (beetles, bees, wasps), maggot, caterpillar (butterflies, moths), and wriggler (mosquitoes).
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The larvae, called wrigglers, feed in the water for a week or so, then pupate for only a few days before emerging as adults.
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Sioni kicked and wriggled, but couldn't break free, much to other two's amusement.
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Palace made him look like a worldbeater, giving him far too much wriggle room out on the wing.
The Sun
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The author is clearly one of the most accident-prone chefs of all time, but a world-class wriggler out of trouble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even for the little wrigglers we can see on specially stained microscope slides, such as the dreaded syphilitic spirochete, there is no Date of Receipt that comes with the dose.
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They wriggle their claws in the dirt, fluff out their feathers, and preen themselves.
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However, airlines can still wriggle out of paying up if the flights were cancelled due to circumstances outside their control.
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After three days the maid wriggled free and used the rope to climb out of a window.
Times, Sunday Times
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Remove large protector bucket and add a couple of gold fish to eat mosquito wrigglers.
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It was always slipping forward or backward, and as I was heavier than the Malay lad, I was always slipping down and trying to wriggle myself up on the great ridge which was the creature's backbone, and always failing, and the mahout was always stopping and pulling the rattan ropes which bound the whole arrangement together, but never succeeding in improving it.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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She tried to wriggle and twist around, but could only move fractionally.
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He wriggles his posterior, as though testing the chair's rating for comfort.
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It snaked down and wriggled about, looking for a good avenue down to the ground but, thankfully, it failed to do so.
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Successive governments have wriggled out of taking action.
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The child wriggled and squirmed, trying to pull himself out of their grasp.
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Males discharge their milt onto the sand near the female and then immediately start to wriggle towards the water.
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He wriggled around both the defender and his goalkeeper and scored from one yard.
Times, Sunday Times
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He put the water back, and wriggled under the covers to continue wallowing in his own self-pity.
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The humidity had him feeling like a damp washrag by the time Sam wriggled his way through the vines and over clumps of rocks, fallen coconuts, and other debris.
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Young mosquito fish wriggle, tadpole-like, amid lily pads and stems of smartweed.
Globe and Mail
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Here students learn to wriggle out of complex situations while managing a business.
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Rational Review
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She wriggled forward, hoping she wasn't already too close to the muckamuck.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Clydebank almost grabbed the lead in the 31st minute when their trialist wriggled free in the box, but he shot inches wide of the near post.
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Most unsettling of all is a portrait by a colleague in which Muybridge hunches, scowling with paranoia, at the base of a patriarchal sequoia, apparently ready to wriggle into a cavity between its roots.
Eadweard Muybridge: pioneer photographer
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To wriggle is to wrest about like a worm.
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Rowena had been scratching the puppy's tummy; she looked up at Terese but wasn't aware she had stopped moving until the puppy began to wriggle impatiently.
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The subject of an aggressive international manhunt, the young man finds immense reserves of physical and combative abilities to wriggle out of any situation.
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He wriggled on the hard chair.
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But she recoiled in horror when the poisonous Chilean rose spider wriggled into life.
The Sun
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Fish leapt and eels wriggled in tanks of water, ducks and chickens squawked in their pens.
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From its neat grid of streets which parallel the long waterfront, a more chaotic jumble of lanes wriggle up the hillside.
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Neyl wriggled out of the window and held on tightly with both hands, his face betraying his shock.
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The cormorant tried four times to eat the wriggler, which was twice its size.
The Sun
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He wriggled uncomfortably on the chair.
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Those who wriggle free are spared and it is easier for a man to do so.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every time he's put down to sleep he wriggles around, quite often until he falls asleep with his head touching one side of the cot and his feet, the other.
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He had squirmed and wriggled and screeched when his father had washed his face.
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He is trying to wriggle out of his various domestic commitments.
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But she got wedged in and battled for an hour to try and wriggle free.
The Sun
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Successive governments have wriggled out of taking action.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ed tried to wriggle and in the end started grovelling to Neil, that he was probably the best informed political journalist on the economy.
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Poised on the edge of her seat, a wriggle backwards would put Ahern's tiny frame in danger of being swallowed by the sumptuously plush green sofa.
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He said that, in his opinion, Mrs Stansfield's counter-claim was a ‘sham’ because she constantly tried to wriggle out of the contract and avoid blame for the shop's closure.
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But they crawl away from the fire and wriggle on top of the water.
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Liz stood at the bedroom window while Moira wriggled out of her jeans and lifted a patterned silk dress out of her wardrobe.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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The saga begins as female wasps wriggle into an unripe fig through a small hole at the end and lay eggs in developing flowers inside.
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The newborn worms, thanks to a slight viscidity, cling for a moment to the wire gauze; they swarm, wriggle, release themselves and leap into the chasm.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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But here's a thing: the curve of the graph seems to be doing a bit of a wriggle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, they were almost allowed to wriggle free.
Times, Sunday Times
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The twins kicked and wriggled under his arms but couldn't get out of his powerful hold.
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You know I was so paranoid about deep-vein thrombosis, I took my aspirin and wriggled my legs but still I thought, that'd be right, I'll get off the plane and cark it.
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A snake wriggled across the wet path.
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There are also fears that insurers will try to wriggle out of claims by downgrading the value of homeowners' damage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Often the thrill of reading is to watch irrational people impose their emotional will on other characters, who must pluckily work to wriggle out from underneath it.
Distortion Theory « Tales from the Reading Room
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But West Ham let them wriggle free as they squandered those three crucial chances.
The Sun
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None of this average crop of average tales, on examination, quite breaks the code; some pursue a serpentine wriggle around it.
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It had crashed down into the wall five or six leagues to port, sagging broken spined withone half on the nearside and the other half on the far side, like a colossal maggot trying to wriggle over an obstacle.
Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World (2010)
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He squirmed and wriggled, ignoring the pain I know he must be feeling.
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He tried desperately to wriggle out of giving a clear answer.
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Jack barely wriggled into the parachute and found the ripcord in time to land painfully but not fatally.
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Insurers who try to wriggle out of critical illness claims for the most spurious of reasons are being forced to pay up by a leading consumer watchdog.
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She felt her cousin wriggle beneath her when she landed on top of him, and she laughed, pleased with herself for turning his own trick back on him.
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The cormorant tried four times to eat the wriggler, which was twice its size.
The Sun
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She tried to wriggle and twist around, but could only move fractionally.
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Palace made him look like a worldbeater, giving him far too much wriggle room out on the wing.
The Sun
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But she recoiled in horror when the poisonous Chilean rose spider wriggled into life.
The Sun
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I wriggled closer and pulled Jamie's head down as though overcome by amorousness.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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If you get a jury notice, treat it as a responsibility rather than something to wriggle out of.
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Take thick-knit socks: those leeches will wriggle through anything.
Times, Sunday Times
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She squirmed, writhed, and wriggled, trying to evade the grip of those carrying her.
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Slowly Ruth peeled off her vest-top and wriggled out of her shorts.
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Sea creatures appear lashed by an ocean spray of brilliant white diamonds; the twisting form of an iguana brooch insinuates the darting wriggle of the animal's movements.
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Within seconds all Jack's hard work looks wasted as Caniza wriggles free and blasts the ball past him.
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Alas, three minutes later the fish does a wriggle down deep and the hook comes free.
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He whinges, he moans, but when push comes to launch, it's always Craig who wriggles into his damp wettie and makes it look sweet.
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Climb the sandy slope away from the hole, and wriggle through a couple of constrictions into a higher level of the chamber, which may, or may not, be Cotton Chamber.
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Three teams will crawl and wriggle and slither to stalk and triangulate on a small guarded bridge.
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She gave a little wriggle of her shoulders, looking uncomfortable.
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Laser cardholders will be able to wriggle out of paying the annual €20 stamp duty on their cards from next year, thanks to a loophole in new rules governing the controversial tax.
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But there IS some wriggle room in the budget for one or two additions.
The Sun
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Keeping the canal relaxed by relaxing his hold on the lid, the surgeon now gently wriggles the probe along the canaliculus, gradually stretching it as the probe advances, so as to avoid catching of the sides of the canal before the point of the instrument, till he is satisfied that it has fairly entered the nasal duct.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
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Watch out for mosquito wrigglers in any uncovered water containers.
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The seat and riding position allow ample wriggle and stretch room - a boon on a long trek.
Times, Sunday Times
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She wriggled a little, and giggled inwardly as she remembered deploring as "exhibitionistic" this same conduct in her oldest daughter.
Children of the Lens
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Below him, Eric made a convulsive wriggle to get his legs around the bottom of the pipe.
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The other is a wriggler, can shift his body very quickly and ends up in the box.
The Sun
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On the restart Mitchell wriggled along the byline and looked on in frustration when his dangerous cross found no takers.
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But she got wedged in and battled for an hour to try and wriggle free.
The Sun
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Cesar managed to wriggle a hand free and slugged Glenn in the side of the face, knocking him to the ground.
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Someone latched onto him but he wriggled away, his eyes directly on Gabrielle Potter.
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Her burial shroud was tattered and ripped, her feet were stripped to the bone and a disgusting, black tongue wriggled around in her mouth.
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How did he wriggle out of the awkward situation?
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But be warned - emotionally this movie will reach deep into the pit of your stomach and wriggle your guts about before wrenching them out.
The Sun
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With a brief, feeble attempt she tried to wriggle out of what bound her wrists, but to no avail.
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A serpent-sized worm wriggled by between our legs.
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He was not gagged, which was a blessing, but the rope was tied tight and limited any movement to a caterpillar-like wriggle.
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One might, perhaps, get a hint by watching the living chrysalid of a potential moon-moth wriggle back into its cocoon -- but little is to be learned from human teaching.
Edge of the Jungle
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THE world of insurance seems impenetrable; what do insurers do and why do they always seem to want to wriggle out of paying up?
Times, Sunday Times
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Difficult to describe, the film contains a host of shifting shapes, such as dots and circles that wriggle and twist, as well as a recurring totem figure that is the most concrete element of the film.
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I've got an appointment I can't wriggle out of.
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He tried to move again but all he could manage was a wriggle under the blankets.
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Most promising is 'precommitment', where we give our future self no wriggle room.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I could see she was pleased, so I gave her a slantendicular look, and said, not even one? at which she blushed even pinker, and wriggled, and said, well, it wasn't her fault, was it, if some very valued and important clients insisted on the personal attention of Madame?
Isabelle
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The types of worms most often used for vermicomposting are Eisenia foetida and Lumbricus rubellus, commonly known as red worms, tiger worms, brandlings, angle worms, manure worms or red wrigglers.
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And the more strict the regulation, the easier it is for banks to wriggle out of responsibilities by insisting that they have ‘followed the rules’.
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And what appeared to us worthy of remark was, that whereas, when a snake was decollated, it was only the tail that continued to wriggle -- when a _worm_ was divided, _all_ the segments writhed in the same way, and manifested an equal irritability; showing the difference between creatures of annulated structure, according as they have or have not a _brain_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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At the end of the third instar, the larva wriggles out of its warble, falls to the ground, and burrows into the soil to pupate.
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I unstuck a Jaffa Cake from my left cheek and wriggled into a pair of jeans.
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He knows he can wriggle out of making a decision by speaking on the record before hearing the full evidence at the committee, thus ‘preventing’ him taking part in proceedings.
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From its neat grid of streets which parallel the long waterfront, a more chaotic jumble of lanes wriggle up the hillside.
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‘They knew we had won but they wriggled out of paying us because we had not reported our ticket as lost within 30 days of the draw,’ she said.
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The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace
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Bauman wriggled into the damp coverall, zipped it closed, then stooped to pick the snitch-mirror up.
STONE CITY
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The snake wriggled through the grass.
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Difficult to describe, the film contains a host of shifting shapes, such as dots and circles that wriggle and twist, as well as a recurring totem figure that is the most concrete element of the film.
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Once the earworm wriggles into your brain, it is impossible to shift.
Times, Sunday Times
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The story goes that a wolf crossed the path of Domenico and, as it was about to sink its teeth into him, a snake wriggled up and sank its fangs into the wolf.
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To wriggle is to wrest about like a worm.
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The seat and riding position allow ample wriggle and stretch room - a boon on a long trek.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who wriggle free are spared and it is easier for a man to do so.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whisky industry, which last week was trying to wriggle out of new environmental regulations on water, has been outed as a major source of water pollution.
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My mother's cat, so long terrified by my very presence, appears to be getting used to me, and now does an impressive, fawning wriggle at my feet every time I pass.
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She could have wriggled close to Dakin, enlisted her cooperation in a coup that went wrong.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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Clydebank almost grabbed the lead in the 31st minute when their trialist wriggled free in the box, but he shot inches wide of the near post.
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She wriggled around for a moment, trying to get free of the ties.
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‘You are not going to wriggle out of the contract,’ says Manners.
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The harder we try to wriggle free from it, the tighter it holds us in its grip.
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