And one specimen in this bundle, as you may already suspect, has developed a prodigious power of squirming and wriggling, and otherwise making the bundle-binders of the Star uncomfortable.
John I seized by the collar; and dragged him squirming and kicking in at the kitchen door.
I am sorry if your medicinal orders have not been carried out, but you must know that it is a difficult matter to introduce that abominably smelling stuff into the inside of a squirming child.
She was squirming and fighting to get down, and her feminine petticoats were tightly wound about her neck.
Yesterday he was brought squirming and howling to my office, charged with having knocked down a little girl and robbed her of her doll.
He was waist-deep in that broth of mud when his feet found the rifle and he stooped down into it and groped around among roots that felt like living, squirming reptiles before he recovered the weapon.
There was a twisting, squirming struggle with Turner at the bottom, but not downed yet for he managed to break away from Francis' hold and got to his hands and knees with Francis across his back.
There was a moment of squirming and grinding, then the whole mass fell in a sort of pyramid which refused to untangle itself even at the orders of the referee, and he was obliged to pull and dig to get at the bottom.
Forgetful of hurts and of weakness, he gathered the ecstatically squirming collie into his battered bare arms and babbled sobbingly: "I did it, square, Jeff.
But for the fallen man's face both Feltman and the perplexed referee would have branded the squirming and groaning antics as a pure fake.
The pup's forty pounds of squirmingweight deflected the blow's aim, and saved Trent's skull from certain fracture.
But as he bent down to drag the squirming bulldog away he saw he was too late.
Might as well," returned the other, casting a glance over toward the balance of the patrol, still squirming more or less, as they tried to make comfortable nests for themselves.
Guess you'll have to lend me a hand this time, boys," he called out, when once more he failed to make connection between his squirming legs and the body of the tree.
There was a squirming figure on the very edge of the roof.
But as she crouched by her chamber window watching the squirming human figure on the edge of the roof, she was interested in only one thing: Who was he?
Seemingly undisturbed by the slashings and slicings which some of them had received, the whole ten squirming horrors now darted at the doorway.
For several minutes he floated, forgetful of the savoury shelled and squirming creatures which his discriminating bill had been gathering from among the oozy sedge-roots.
The horse, frightened, galloped down the road, and bullets were fired into the squirming body as it was dragged over the rocks.
He turned upon the dog sent after him and seizing the aggressor by the hair at his back lifted him from the ground and maintaining his dignity trotted out of the corn-field carrying the squirming dog.
Stahle was aware of this weakness, and as, with a strong effort at self-command, I took up the bottle and then set it down again in a paroxysm of terror at the squirming inmates, he laughed derisively.
He simply sat and stared at those four squirming babies.
In the middle of a soft bed of moss was a squirming mass of legs and funny little heads.
By this time Whitefoot had made out that that squirming mass of legs and heads was composed of baby Mice.
You needn't feel in your pockets, colonel, or look round the sala to see if perchance there is a green silk rope squirming from the ceiling.
Dick, fascinated and inert, watched the snaky mass, squirming in hideous folds almost on the recumbent body.
It was not water; it was the waving, squirming bodies of snakes.
He released the squirming boy and rubbed a finger round the top of his collar as he turned to his mother.
Then the woman gave the stiff headgear a dexterous turn and the squirming thing landed on her head.
She started back, for she had felt something squirming inside of his shirt.
The place was alive with a squirming mass of hideous reptiles, hissing and gliding about at being disturbed.
So he did, and after a time the tiny creatures got to like the water so much that they lived in it all the time, instead of just squirming about in the mud.
That I might explain myself, you made me for a moment serious, set me squirming in my turn.
The squirming of the human worm is interesting to observe, and the practice of observing it has this advantage, that while we observe it we forget to squirm ourselves.
The excitement over, the boy looked at the helpless squirming thing in his hand, and a surge of remorse came on him.
If they would only come near--near enough so that of a sudden he could let go his grip and launch this squirming human shield full, like a battering ram, into those white eyes.
A sudden tug brought the body down a squirming mass.
In a moment I had whipped the tomahawk from my belt and slashed at the body of the snake squirming at my feet, as, baffled for a moment by the falling branch, it gathered itself for a second attack.
When the fray was over and the wicked little serpent lay squirming in death, both dogs took joyful credit on account of the feat.
Hastily stripping, the boy dived and when he reappeared the eel was vainly squirming in one of the legs of his trousers which had been knotted below the knee.
Squirming in dirt was a naked infant-black, foul, and but a few days old.
It was not far he was compelled to go, his movements squirming and noiseless.
Then a signal was given and the panting, squirming mass was jerked to the surface.
It was a writhing, squirming mass of blackened humanity struggling for a mere physical existence, a bare living.
He looks down in disgust and fear, and sees a great squirming body, a strangely twofold face, and two immense eyes so queerly diverse from one another that, as it were, not one being but a number of them clung to his hands and feet.
The soldiers drive him away with blows of their whips, and squirming so as to avoid the blows, and showing his teeth at the soldiers, he explains hurriedly: "I go with Thee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squirming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
