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Example sentences for "wriggles"

Lexicographically close words:
wretches; wretyn; wriggle; wriggled; wrigglers; wriggling; wriggly; wrighting; wring; wringer
  1. When I see a little boy who is a blessing and a privilege and never frets and says he has nothing to play with, and never wriggles when his hair is brushed, I am his Best and most Intimate Friend.

  2. You had better run off into the forest as fast as you can before he wriggles all the way out," he said quickly to the biggest little lion.

  3. It lies on its back and wriggles its legs, especially the hind legs.

  4. The network of ideas remains and forms as it were a moving cobweb in which repose wriggles and tosses, incapable of finding a stable equilibrium.

  5. Now this always happens a few days before the "shell" is thrown off; and the animal wriggles and twists about inside it, in order to loosen the attachments which bind it to its body.

  6. Her wriggles alone would have kept it stiff enough, and fetched me.

  7. She wriggles her face out of his hands, and moving her body as she reclines upon the white rug, so turns herself that she comes face to face with him.

  8. With a thoroughly astonished air, however, she wriggles herself free, and draws back from him.

  9. Translation] Now wriggles the worm to its goal; A tousling; a hasty encounter; A grapple; down falls the rain.

  10. Her tail wriggles without hinges, Both ends of it at once and equal.

  11. It is excessively sensitive and may be made so to such a degree that the mere act of breathing near the coil will affect it, and unless it is perfectly well protected from currents of air, it wriggles around constantly.

  12. The arc is established at much greater distances, and it is so easily affected by the slightest current of air that it often wriggles around in the most singular manner.

  13. And when he goes out he wriggles his snout, In a way that no cuttlefish ought.

  14. When placed on the smooth wood of my table, the animal wriggles slowly; it lengthens and shortens without advancing by a hair's-breadth.

  15. It is active and wriggles with awkward movements.

  16. The grub now bends itself into a bow; it wriggles upon its back, upon its side; it crawls a little way; it digs and heaves with its mandibles.

  17. This, which last Sunday would have set his nerves tingling, now gave him much the same feeling a man has when a dog that he owns wriggles and looks at him.

  18. His uncle's eye travelled beyond him, humanely turning from the last despairing wriggles of his fish.

  19. The whole length of the Imp wriggles with excitement.

  20. This so excited the dear creature that in one or two delicious wriggles on my stationary prick, and with a pressure that seemed as if it would nip it off, she spent profusely, squealing all the time like a rabbit.

  21. He awoke after dawn, and for a moment curled in happy wriggles of satisfaction over a good sleep.

  22. One reads on and on, and one's brain is as muddled as though one were deciphering the Chinese wriggles on tea chests!

  23. Madame Somov does not like ruled paper, and every line runs downhill with horrid wriggles as it reaches the margin.

  24. Like a huge eel she wriggles up to the surface, where she lies in wait, slowly drifting with the current.

  25. It wriggles between her teeth and tickles her cheeks and chin with slaps of its little tail; and yet .

  26. It is almost impossible to get near them, for the upright neck of the sentinel cannot be seen by the stalker as he wriggles towards the flock on his face, until long after the stalker himself has been plainly visible to the bird.

  27. If that happens, the fate of the worm is sealed, for the loop is elastic, and the more it wriggles the farther it slips in and the stronger it is held.

  28. Curses ring out amid a low sound of hard breathing; the ranks are gapped here and there as a man wriggles away like a wounded rabbit, or another bounds upward with a frantic ejaculation.

  29. And the Imp wriggles down from the wall and climbs up the easiest of the trees and shouts out that they are quite soft.

  30. And when the young cuckoo comes tumbling out of his egg, instead of being kind and polite to the children to whom his nursery really belongs he just wriggles his big naked body under them and tumbles them out of the nest.

  31. Yes," said the teacher, "now think of another little creature that wriggles about in the earth and comes to the top through a small hole.

  32. Think," said the teacher, "of a little creature that wriggles about in the earth and sometimes comes to the top through a tiny hole.

  33. A half-ground man has to be carefully watched, or else he wriggles out of his place.

  34. When a ship sinks in mud or quicksand she regularly digs her own grave and wriggles herself into it deeper and deeper till she reaches moderately solid stuff.

  35. He asked Kathleen, by way of control experiment, to show him if she could raise the stool on her foot; and he asks us to believe that her very obvious wriggles and straining prove that this was not the usual lifting force.

  36. Her moans and groans and wriggles habitually enabled her to release her hands and feet from the men who were supposed to control them.

  37. She wriggles and squirms all the time, and releases her hands and feet.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wriggles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.