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- verb Present participle of
squirm . - noun The motion of something that
squirms .
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Examples
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That I can't read it without squirming is my problem not hers.
Monica Edinger: Fiction about Real People: Some Thoughts Related to Sharon Dogar's Annexed Monica Edinger 2010
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That I can't read it without squirming is my problem not hers.
Monica Edinger: Fiction about Real People: Some Thoughts Related to Sharon Dogar's Annexed Monica Edinger 2010
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That I can't read it without squirming is my problem not hers.
Monica Edinger: Fiction about Real People: Some Thoughts Related to Sharon Dogar's Annexed Monica Edinger 2010
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For anyone who enjoys the sight of liberals squirming, that is the nicest touch of all: the former Tridentine Rite now bears the name of the man who convened Vatican II.
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What followed was not the worst of George's lifetime of mortifications, but he vividly recalled his squirming embarrassment in the backseat as the chauffeur got out of the car and set about changing the tire.
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But with nothing eternal before me but death, given for a brief spell this yeasty crawling and squirming which is called life, why, it would be immoral for me to perform any act that was a sacrifice.
Chapter 8 2010
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I don't know whence you get the idea that I'm "squirming".
Bad Boy Bible Study James F. McGrath 2009
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Are the students kind of squirming around and uncomfortable?
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And well, we were kind of squirming along with him at times.
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Just above her, fire roared out of the fifth-story window as though it were fed by forced draft, the tongues and billows of orange flame shooting halfway out over the street like a kind of squirming canopy over her head.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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