The electric motor rattled and stopped, and Ringmaster Oswell wheezed and squirmed from the cab.
They rode the escalator to the sixth tier and squirmed through pandemonium to their seats.
She twisted andsquirmed in his grasp, scratching him and clawing at his face in an access of terror, and one hand finally caught the black mask covering and tore it from his face.
Dale's back was toward the wall, and he twisted and squirmed like a cat to swing himself around so that he could face it.
He laughed in feline humor when Maison squirmed at the words.
He was now certain the men were what he had taken them to be, and he grinned felinely as he squirmed around until he got into a position from which he could see them.
Twice he seized her hands and swept them brutally to her sides, where he held them--trying to grip them in one of his; but she squirmed free and fought him again, clawing at his eyes.
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.
Newcomers received the story of the crime in darkling whispers; and the outcast sat and sat and sat, and squirmed and squirmed and squirmed.
She squirmed past Wright, dropped to the ground, her cheek pressed on Sears' tangled hair, her free arm wandering over his face and shoulder as if she wanted to cover him like a shield.
I was on the verge of tossing him from me when he squirmed once more, this time to the one side.
He squirmed around and before I could wink was on top of his foe.
With a litheness that I had never judged possible he squirmed and swung himself, till in a short time he had completely disappeared among the trees.
Despite a parting of seams he squirmed upon the horizontal bar, gripped his knees with his hands.
The minister sort of squirmed around and began the service over.
He squirmed and wriggled, kicked and butted, in fact he used every weapon at his command.
He squirmed through the opening in the door and seeing no sign of any one outside called to Hugh to follow him.
But he, too, was half Apache and had squirmed through without mishap.
Matt viewed this movement with increased alarm, and squirmed to release himself, but without avail.
Matt squirmed and twisted like an eel, and suddenly gave the old auctioneer a push which sent him sprawling upon his back.
He squirmedand twisted this way and that until finally free, and then, before the tramp could catch him again, he sprang to his feet and leaped upon the foot-rest of the wagon.
Through the dimly lighted laboratory came a spurt of bluish flame that twisted and squirmed with slow undulations around the cathode electrode.
I squirmed through the oval and dropped to the floor.
She squirmed at the cords holding her, but could not loosen them.
The murderer squirmed on the floor, sobbing and muttering; and by the time Doctor Nash had decided that he was really having a fit the old devil had finished having it.
It squirmed beneath his fingers, and again gave utterance to that amazing sound.
The huge farm-hand, who had shifted and squirmed his way to the back of the crowd, now lifted his arm.
He got on his hands and knees and squirmed and wriggled himself behind the wood.
She squirmed and tossed and became increasingly aware of the rising wind.
But it squirmed off through thick jungle, through banana groves and untended pineapple gardens to come out at last at an astonished hut on a knoll, from which was not to be seen a sign of the river.
When at last the pay-windows came down with a bang and an American curse, and the serpentining tail squirmed for a time in distress and died away, as a snake's tail dies after sundown, I turned in more than a hundred cards.
So we waited and dodged and squirmed into closer holes for another hour; and grew steadily wetter.
Bud squirmed in his chair at his chance to show the sincerity that he knew was required of him.
I stretched him out and got a foot on his chest, but he squirmed like a worm, although I appealed repeatedly to his sense of propriety and the duty he owed to himself as a gentleman not to make a row.
He barked and squirmed and yapped, and I guess he had Leon about crazy by the time they got home.
He squealed his loudest, and squirmed like an eel, and no doubt would have bitten her, only she was so frightened that she dropped him on the grass.
When the lady put him in his box, hesquirmed and screamed; and when she fastened the cover down, he cried and scratched to get out.
You see, she had left him until he got hungry, and then he had squirmedout to look for his lady; and when he could not find her he screamed and cried.
Finally the lady started on with him in her hand; but he squirmed and whimpered so, she soon grew tired of holding him—and then, what do you think she did?
When she came back he had squirmed out of the blanket and was standing up as straight as he could on his funny little legs, and holding up his funny head, with his eyes still tight shut.
Uncle Joe squirmed as he glanced around, and arose to leave for the card room, but the captain smiled and nodded.
They squirmed under his heavy flattery and finally, in desperation, spoke of the secret trail to Taos.
And it's snowing hard," he added, as he squirmed into his coat and again looked out of the window.
He had so wiggled and squirmed after getting into the tin thing like a bath tub that his coat was all hunched up in bunches.
The young man in the bloom of youth's mother put salt on the leeches, and they squirmed off, and fell with sickening, slug-like flops on the brick floor.
It was horribly lively, and squirmedabout in her arms, and wanted to crawl on the floor.
He hung back and squirmed like a reluctant puppy at the end of the leash.
My first effort was a desperate attempt to drag his hands from my throat; but although I put out all my strength and squirmed and wriggled and twisted to elude his grip, I could do nothing.
The little black 'orse outpaced Percival's small legs, and Percival came running back and took Lord Burdon's hand and watched with eager eyes and squirmed with delight.
Then came the rubbing with snow, carried on with an intensity of cruel fierceness, till she squirmed and shrank and moved her toes, and joyously complained of the hurt.
He squirmed as far as his bonds would permit, then craned his neck forward until his lips just managed to reach the crack.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squirmed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
