MaryJanice Davidson

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.

American Author

Jonathan Franklin

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.

American Journalist

Peter Singer

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.

Australian Philosopher

Clayton M. Christensen

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.

Sam Kean

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.

American Writer

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.

Molly Ivins

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.

Ted Nelson

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.

Anne Lamott

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Use 'wriggle' to describe animals or people moving with small, twisty motions.

Physical Movement

'Wriggle' often implies a struggle to escape from a tight space or situation.

Struggle to Escape

Use 'wriggle out of' when someone is trying to avoid responsibility or a commitment.

Avoid Responsibility

This use of 'wriggle' suggests a subtle or clever way of avoiding something.

Subtle Evasion

Use 'wriggle' to show how someone moves into or through a confined space.

Small Space Maneuvering

'Wriggle through' emphasizes careful movement to avoid being stuck or trapped.

Careful Squeezing

Use 'wriggle' as a noun to create a vivid image of an object moving.

Vivid Imagery

A person's 'wriggle' can suggest discomfort or impatience.

Discomfort Signal

 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.

How the button changed...

 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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 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.

Inés Hercovich: Why...

 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

How parasites change...

 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

Portugese Manowar PIPE...

 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

The Crafty Catfish...

 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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 wriggle back to sea this is the moment the pelicans have been waiting for slightly deeper water means they can get

Aquatic Animals Take To...

 take blood from a wriggling lump blubber is not easiest job in the world tim is still sorry you're in the right

Taking Seal Blood...

 The greatest danger comes as they wriggle back to sea.

Wriggle

To move in a twisting or sliding manner, usually with short quick movements.

To cause difficulty for oneself by not being straightforward or direct in speech or action.

To create a way through or into (a confined space) by twisting the body.

A writhing or squirming movement.

Physical Movement

Struggle to Escape

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