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- noun Plural form of
squirming .
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Examples
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He did not go out of his way to express it with overtures of wrigglings and squirmings and whimpering yelpings.
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A victim of possession, played with grand-guignol gusto by Marta Gastini, responds to Father Lucas's ministrations with elaborate writhings and squirmings; a male victim wouldn't have given the genre its requisite sexual charge.
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In a surprisingly short time he had slumped to the floor, and not until his squirmings ceased did Eddie loose that awful grip.
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In a surprisingly short time he had slumped to the floor, and not until his squirmings ceased did Eddie loose that awful grip.
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Heckerling captures her characters 'squirmings with affection and wonder.
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The foreign policy priesthood has certainly wobbled from wrong to incoherent on the war--and the embarrassing squirmings of Michael O'Hanlon in an attempt to respond to criticisms that I and others made don't help much.
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You are a sad and warped little man if you are so negatively inclined so as to confuse squirmings of joy with fear and sadness.
Paul Nelson: Skepticism of the dino bird hypothesis explored - The Panda's Thumb
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Bloom, Hearnden, your entire argument is arrant nonsense, much ado about nothing, a warmarian tempest in a climatological teapot, the crock-a-doodle-dooing of a chickenlittlesian, the febrile squirmings of a can-o-warms.
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The girl at the right noticed her squirmings and felt sorry for her.
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The tiny male in her arms now was her dearest love, and he, in his squirmings, gave her plenty to do.
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