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Wriggle meaning
To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm. | To cause something to wriggle. | To use crooked or devious means.
Example sentences (20)
French read it but managed to wriggle free to score!
If you can stand getting close enough, it's like a scene from a horror movie — countless long, dark bodies writhe and wriggle inside a silky sack of creepiness.
Much of its appeal lies in Tom Hiddleston's Loki, imprisoned in Asgard for his crimes in previous MCU movies, only to wriggle his way out of the noose once again.
Salah does well to wriggle free and get a cross into the box, and Jota gets on the end of it with three players around him.
While the leadership of the Commission was attempting to wriggle out of the controversy, the feeling from the presidency was one of weariness.
And when we find ourselves in such a precarious position, we can't just wriggle out of it.
At the halfway point of the innings, the Scottish women need to get a wriggle on.
Barkers’ response came from Clark, who managed to wriggle free of markers before hitting a low shot from 20 yards which was comfortably saved by the diving Bernard Paris.
Being Ratcliffe's man should buy him wriggle room and time, but he will know that at a club of the size of United, patience only stretches so far.
Benji Kimpioka does brilliantly to wriggle free from a series of challenges as Saints look to get forward.
Despite the potential to get things rolling as players return from injury, the Pies don’t have much wriggle room left in their season.
Easter is out of the way and know a good or bad result at will be magnified because there is so little wriggle room left in a Championship top three which has the Whites second on points won but third on points per game.
Flooding is forecast to affect locations near the River Yeo, River Cam, and River Wriggle, with low lying land and roads expected to be most affected, particularly around the Sparkford to Weston Bampfylde road and Deep Ford Lane, Chetnole.
Nunez, with enough space to wriggle in, cut inside leaving Zabarnyi off balance.
Of all his previous losses, this will hurt Sen the most, as he had the chance to deal the first blow on his fancied opponent, but instead, he wilted under pressure against the towering Dane, who always found a way to wriggle out of tricky situations.
Since the 2021 ruling, the owners have not altered the site, campaigners claim, and the council says the developers should comply with the inquiry inspector’s orders first instead of seeking to effectively wriggle through the issues in “reverse”.
Tesla then initially tried to wriggle out of paying for it, even though the vehicle was sold through a company-approved used car dealer and still under warranty.
What’s more off-putting than seeing U.S. government officials and their spokesmen trying to wriggle out of embarrassing questions about American support for Israel’s continuing atrocities against the people of the Gaza Strip?
Writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth is working to correct misconceptions of well-known sayings, including 'wriggle room', 'escape goat', 'damp squid', and 'nip in the butt'.
But a writer who used to move in the same exclusive circles as the Brit socialite has suggested she may still be able to wriggle out of serious prison time.