435 examples of wriggled in sentences

Back they wriggled breathlessly.

Breathless, my flesh scraped and bruised, I wriggled partly free, and tripped him, his great body striking the deck with a thud.

The getting of it on is anguish, and as to the getting of it off, I heard her moan to her nurse the other night, as she wriggled her curly head through the too-small exit, "Oh I only God knows how I hate gettin' peeled out

Toady wriggled in his chair, and gave a little gasp.

But Ivra wriggled away from it and stood clear.

He felt so worm-like he almost wriggled.

Della wriggled off the table and went for him.

What would Captain Carey's eldest son like to do for his only cousin, a little girl younger than himself,a girl who had a very silly, unwise, unhappy mother for the first five years of her life, and who is now practically fatherless, for a time at least?" Gilbert wriggled as if in great moral discomfort, as indeed he was.

We children had wriggled under the fence, and were climbing the apple trees by that time, and we wanted to be brought up there that very minute.

As she spoke she reached for her bathing suit, which was down under the poncho, and wriggled into it.

Hinpoha, still half asleep, but mechanically obeying Sahwah's energetic directions, got into her bathing suit and wriggled out of the bed, drawing the poncho up over her pillow and blankets.

I couldn't see him, but I felt his shoes as he wriggled away into the darkness above me, and I held my breath, I gripped the rope and kept it taut so that Leith and Soma might not discover the ruse.

A loud laugh was raised on one occasion, when the Palatine captain got the ball, and, holding it high in the air to make a try for goal from the field, found himself covered by the towering Sawed-Off; he curved the ball downward, where one of the Twins leaped for it in front; then he wriggled and writhed with it till it was between his legs.

"You've made me travel two thousand miles to see this thing through: why didn't you make sure of having your man here?" Hawk wriggled uneasily in his chair.

Columbus, waiting to go through, wriggled in a manner that expressed his entire ignorance on the subject.

Why didn't you think of it, Columbus?" Columbus couldn't say really, but he wriggled his nose into the caressing hand and gave her to understand that lunch really didn't matter.

Sharon wriggled self-consciously.

She wriggled up and sat erectly on the edge of the davenport, one slippered foot dangling just above the other.

" Rap wriggled about a little, then settled himself comfortably with his chin resting on the top of his crutch, and began: "It was the year that my leg was hurt.

"Do you mind," Corp said, "how often, when we had boasted we were to start at four and didna get roaded till six, we wriggled by that window so that Grizel shouldna see us?"

I wriggled into a coat and followed him out to where his chariot awaited us.

"You wriggled that off in the most approved manner.

They neither spat nor wriggled; they interpolated no juicy anecdotes of murder or theft among their acquaintance; and not once between either ocean did they or any other fellow-subjects volunteer that their country was 'law-abiding.' You know the First Sign-post on the Great Main Road? '

D'ye 'ear?' "The gal wriggled 'er shoulders agin and went on reading, but she gave the cook a look out of 'er innercent baby eyes that nearly made 'im drop the mop.

Just as I had walked my horse through the swamp, and while contemplating ruefully its naked aspect, a huge black snake wriggled rapidly across the path, and I pulled my reins tight and opened my mouth wide with horror.

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