Wondering how to use Wriggling in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as squirming or twisting.
Wriggling meaning
present participle and gerund of wriggle
Using Wriggling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of wriggle
- Useful related words include: squirming, twisting, wiggling, wiggly.
- In the example corpus, wriggling often appears in combinations such as: wriggling out, wriggling in, and wriggling.
Context around Wriggling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wriggling
- In this selection, "wriggling" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stopped, strange, biddy, frightened, story and likely stand out and add context to how "wriggling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accused of wriggling out of and alive and wriggling. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wriggling" sits close to words such as aaj, abn and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wriggling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Is that a wriggling in the steering wheel? (8 words)
It has one small fish, a silver biddy, wriggling. (9 words)
Charli's 'move' segments involved her singing, dancing, and wriggling to an educational theme. (14 words)
First-time feature director Benoît Delhomme, however, doesn’t have much command over this strange, wriggling story, which really calls for an assertive stylist to choose a pitch (in this case, probably the higher the better) and stick to it with gusto. (42 words)
On this occasion, the event caught many by surprise and it was only the tourists with Mr da Silva who were on hand to grab handfuls from the hundreds of slippery creatures wriggling in the sand and trapped on rocks. (40 words)
But on Tuesday, prosecutors wanted jurors to focus more on what, exactly, the pain management specialist was doing at "Chicago's sexiest nightclub" with an exotic dancer-turned-pharmaceutical executive named Sunrise wriggling around on his lap. (37 words)
Is that a wriggling in the steering wheel? (8 words)
What about rope to support people on the cross, but also nails to prevent them from wriggling free? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm was pulled from the 64-year-old woman after brain surgery, still alive and wriggling.
This glimpse of my future life – where the women were there to move the plot along or be aggressively kissed until they stopped wriggling – frightened me.
Charli's 'move' segments involved her singing, dancing, and wriggling to an educational theme.
Doku was denied by another good stop from Nita after wriggling through the over-worked Romania defence.
First-time feature director Benoît Delhomme, however, doesn’t have much command over this strange, wriggling story, which really calls for an assertive stylist to choose a pitch (in this case, probably the higher the better) and stick to it with gusto.
For World of Wizards on Canadian television, Randi was filmed suspended above the raging Niagara Falls while wriggling out of a straitjacket bound in chains.
He attempts to use the same technique on Korra later, but Avatars have a way of wriggling out of such dire situations.
It has one small fish, a silver biddy, wriggling.
Not only will their wriggling likely keep you up, letting a child sleep with you can stunt their development.
Bressman also observed the fish moving in a way no other amphibious fish do: It makes near-simultaneous rowing movements with its while wriggling its axial fin back and forth.
But on Tuesday, prosecutors wanted jurors to focus more on what, exactly, the pain management specialist was doing at "Chicago's sexiest nightclub" with an exotic dancer-turned-pharmaceutical executive named Sunrise wriggling around on his lap.
Fukuoka made the difference, wriggling over on the overlap to complete a stunning team try and put the home side in front where they stayed, leaving Ireland’s players slumped on the turf in disbelief.
In 2016, the crew on a flight to Paris in a passenger’s carry-on luggage after they were tipped off by another passenger who saw the bag wriggling.
On this occasion, the event caught many by surprise and it was only the tourists with Mr da Silva who were on hand to grab handfuls from the hundreds of slippery creatures wriggling in the sand and trapped on rocks.
Recently her husband landed in some hot water when he was accused of wriggling out of paying rent on his apartment.
Wriggling out of the $9.6 billion judgment debt arising from the controversial agreement between Nigeria and a United Kingdom-based natural gas company, Process & Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) is going to be pretty difficult.
Beckley said she woke up her bunkmate to show her the worm, a piece of tangled white fluff wriggling at the end of her index finger.
Dogs wriggling in the snow; jumping up and down in anticipation of a walk; sniffing or licking or wagging excitedly.
Is that a wriggling in the steering wheel?
What about rope to support people on the cross, but also nails to prevent them from wriggling free?
Common combinations with wriggling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- wriggling out 4×
- wriggling in 3×
- and wriggling 2×
- while wriggling 2×
- of wriggling 2×