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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wriggle .
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Examples
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He watched it closely, as if endeavoring to learn the precise fashion of his father's knot; and when at last Bill was swung up a-tiptoe to a limb, and the whipping commenced, Simon's eye followed every movement of his father's arm; and as each blow descended upon the bare shoulders of his sable friend, his own body writhed and "wriggled" in involuntary sympathy.
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He watched it closely, as if endeavouring to learn the precise fashion of his father's knot; and when at last Bill was swung up a-tiptoe to a limb, and the whipping commenced, Simon's eye followed every movement of his father's arm; and as each blow descended upon the bare shoulders of his sable friend, his own body writhed and "wriggled" in involuntary sympathy.
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She made a couple of passes at her riot of curls and gazed at her reflected self in high approval as, putting both hands upon her smoothly rounded hips, she" "wriggled" is the only possible term for it-in sheer joy of being alive.
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I wriggled them free and wrapped them around his neck, snagging into his silken hair like the reins of a horse.
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In the forties, Petro wriggled free from a death sentence on a retrial in a murder case.
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Andre had remained alive through the entire grisly process, even as the spawn wriggled from his mouth and nose and ears and anus.
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The baby boy wriggled in his arms, a warm, wet mass, softer than a goat and hairier than a rabbit kit.
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I wriggled, my tail burning as I tried to pull away.
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The baby boy wriggled in his arms, a warm, wet mass, softer than a goat and hairier than a rabbit kit.
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I then grabbed it with some pliers and wriggled it through the grate.
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