Wriggle
verb
To move in a twisting or sliding manner, usually with short quick movements.
The worm wriggled out of the bird's beak
verb
To cause difficulty for oneself by not being straightforward or direct in speech or action.
He tried to wriggle out of the situation by making up an excuse
verb
To create a way through or into (a confined space) by twisting the body.
She managed to wriggle through the narrow gap in the fence
noun
A writhing or squirming movement.
With a wriggle, the fish was off the hook
verb
To move in a twisting or sliding manner, usually with short quick movements.
The worm wriggled out of the bird's beak
verb
To cause difficulty for oneself by not being straightforward or direct in speech or action.
He tried to wriggle out of the situation by making up an excuse
verb
To create a way through or into (a confined space) by twisting the body.
She managed to wriggle through the narrow gap in the fence
noun
A writhing or squirming movement.
With a wriggle, the fish was off the hook
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Use 'wriggle' to describe animals or people moving with small, twisty motions.
The puppy wriggled with excitement when it saw its owner.
Pro Tip 2/2Struggle to Escape
'Wriggle' often implies a struggle to escape from a tight space or situation.
The magician wriggled free from the chains.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Use 'wriggle' to describe animals or people moving with small, twisty motions.
The puppy wriggled with excitement when it saw its owner.
Pro Tip 2/2Struggle to Escape
'Wriggle' often implies a struggle to escape from a tight space or situation.
The magician wriggled free from the chains.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Use 'wriggle' to describe animals or people moving with small, twisty motions.
The puppy wriggled with excitement when it saw its owner.
Pro Tip 2/2Struggle to Escape
'Wriggle' often implies a struggle to escape from a tight space or situation.
The magician wriggled free from the chains.
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How the button changed...
Almost more important than the button is the buttonhole. And the way you figure that out the diameter of the button plus the width of the button, plus a little bit of ease. Before buttons, clothes were bigger -- they were more kind of amorphous, and people, like, wriggled into them or just kind of wrapped themselves in things.
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me sit behind it and talk about it before it finally wriggled off to start hunting getting that close to the most venomous snake on the planet this gorgeous golden scaled creature and was one of the most special snake encounters I've ever had in my life and that's saying something
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Inés Hercovich: Why...
I thought he might have a gun in the glove compartment. Suddenly, he jumped on me and tried to kiss me. I said no. I wanted to push him away, but he was holding my arms down. When I wriggled free, I tried to open the door, but it was locked.
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How parasites change...
the worm produces proteins that garble the cricket's navigational system. The confused cricket jumps around erratically, moves closer to water, and eventually leaps in, often drowning in the process. The worm then wriggles out to mate
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Portugese Manowar PIPE...
of the way of those stingers other fish are attracted to its seemingly protected position only to get zapped by the Man O'War now here's the gushy part the digestive organs enter the monstrous drama they wriggle and twist as they
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The Crafty Catfish...
babies and gobble them up just scaring them off isn't the answer the cichlid has to create a safe haven for its young using its mouth as both shovel and bucket then it moves it's wriggling brood to
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Yuval Noah Harari...
for me it's very helpful to think of myself as this sort of um chaotic mix of personalities ideas thoughts battling you ouch in there this is kind of like this mad you know wriggling
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Aquatic Animals Take To...
wriggle back to sea this is the moment the pelicans have been waiting for slightly deeper water means they can get
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Taking Seal Blood...
take blood from a wriggling lump blubber is not easiest job in the world tim is still sorry you're in the right
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Why Are These Fish...
The greatest danger comes as they wriggle back to sea.
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How the button changed...
Almost more important than the button is the buttonhole. And the way you figure that out the diameter of the button plus the width of the button, plus a little bit of ease. Before buttons, clothes were bigger -- they were more kind of amorphous, and people, like, wriggled into them or just kind of wrapped themselves in things.
Video examples
*YouTube Exclusive*...
me sit behind it and talk about it before it finally wriggled off to start hunting getting that close to the most venomous snake on the planet this gorgeous golden scaled creature and was one of the most special snake encounters I've ever had in my life and that's saying something
Video examples
Inés Hercovich: Why...
I thought he might have a gun in the glove compartment. Suddenly, he jumped on me and tried to kiss me. I said no. I wanted to push him away, but he was holding my arms down. When I wriggled free, I tried to open the door, but it was locked.
Video examples
How parasites change...
the worm produces proteins that garble the cricket's navigational system. The confused cricket jumps around erratically, moves closer to water, and eventually leaps in, often drowning in the process. The worm then wriggles out to mate
Video examples
Portugese Manowar PIPE...
of the way of those stingers other fish are attracted to its seemingly protected position only to get zapped by the Man O'War now here's the gushy part the digestive organs enter the monstrous drama they wriggle and twist as they
Video examples
The Crafty Catfish...
babies and gobble them up just scaring them off isn't the answer the cichlid has to create a safe haven for its young using its mouth as both shovel and bucket then it moves it's wriggling brood to
Video examples
Yuval Noah Harari...
for me it's very helpful to think of myself as this sort of um chaotic mix of personalities ideas thoughts battling you ouch in there this is kind of like this mad you know wriggling
Video examples
Aquatic Animals Take To...
wriggle back to sea this is the moment the pelicans have been waiting for slightly deeper water means they can get
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Taking Seal Blood...
take blood from a wriggling lump blubber is not easiest job in the world tim is still sorry you're in the right
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Why Are These Fish...
The greatest danger comes as they wriggle back to sea.
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MaryJanice Davidson
American Author
I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I'd be able to quit and try writing full time.
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Jonathan Franklin
American Journalist
Getting to Valle Nevado is half the fun. A serpentine road from Santiago wriggles up the spine of Andean peak for an hour, then traverses a valley and finally up again. The hotel is perched on a rugged mountain crag at 3,000m: no other sign of human development is visible from this spot, which is close to the Argentinean border.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.
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Clayton M. Christensen
American Author
For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.
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Sam Kean
American Writer
Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.
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Jeremy Wade
I was 7 or 8, and my parents gave me a rod and reel as a way to get me out of the house. My first fish was a roach fish, and I remember being frightened to touch it. It was wriggling and cold blooded, but it was magical.
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Molly Ivins
American Journalist
As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.
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Ted Nelson
American Author
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
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Anne Lamott
American Author
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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MaryJanice Davidson
American Author
I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I'd be able to quit and try writing full time.
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Jonathan Franklin
American Journalist
Getting to Valle Nevado is half the fun. A serpentine road from Santiago wriggles up the spine of Andean peak for an hour, then traverses a valley and finally up again. The hotel is perched on a rugged mountain crag at 3,000m: no other sign of human development is visible from this spot, which is close to the Argentinean border.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.
Quote examples
Clayton M. Christensen
American Author
For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.
Quote examples
Sam Kean
American Writer
Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.
Quote examples
Jeremy Wade
I was 7 or 8, and my parents gave me a rod and reel as a way to get me out of the house. My first fish was a roach fish, and I remember being frightened to touch it. It was wriggling and cold blooded, but it was magical.
Quote examples
Molly Ivins
American Journalist
As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.
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Ted Nelson
American Author
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
Quote examples
Anne Lamott
American Author
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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