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Definition of wiggle:

  • (noun) the act of wiggling
  • (verb) move to and fro;

Sentence Examples:

Emotions so fierce in their sorrow, that they left not a single wiggle in his tail: his hopes were crushed, his expectations ruined.

I once advised you to wiggle up to the bird, now I tell you solemnly to wiggle away, before it's too late.

He wiggled into position and gave himself to her voice and the long slow thrusts of her body.

Then Don or the farmer might see it wiggling, and run over to find out what it was all about.

The brown bird alighted on the edge and closed one cavity with a wiggling green worm, while not two minutes later the blue filled another with a white.

Then she took hold of the branch in her teeth, and stood up on her hind legs and began to wiggle it up and down.

He soon discovered, however, that, wiggling around inside it as he did, made the cabbage wiggle too, and the first thing you know the cabbage began to roll down the hill, just like a man in a barrel.

If they can wiggle out of taking my logs, they'll be to the good, because they've made other contracts down the coast at fifty cents a thousand less.

Noses were lowered and brought together, feet were stamped, hands were wiggled behind backs, and right along the American, the agent, talked and talked.

What a consolation it must be to mothers to know that the baby is not to be blamed for wiggling the big toe without wiggling the other toes.

The populace look down upon us from the high bank, every wiggle of the dogs' tails indicating the general impatience at the time it takes the big boat to make a landing.

Any little puff that catches her sudden makes her wiggle herself in a way I have never seen another plane do.

As nearly as I can express it, she seemed to "wiggle" a little, although that isn't the word.

I have guys coming in here every day with hurry-up tales about how their cattle won't live unless I get a wiggle on me.

One of them we are free of because, one night, seeing him wiggle-waggle in his seat as if about to rise, we sent an elder to him to say that his remarks were not acceptable.

He held something in his hand, and a long snake-like object seemed to wiggle along behind him.

They saw Sammie standing near the fence, greatly frightened, and looking at a tangle of morning glory vines in which something was wiggling around and making a great fuss.

Then he wiggled about, making the pumpkin move and roll over the stoop as if it were alive.

After a while I made up my mind to take some chances to find out if the bear was on watch, and I wiggled my foot.

She asked, wiggling her horns and looking over the tops of her glasses as easily as you can draw a picture of a horse.

Away it sailed, over the fence and across the field, and then, oh, don't breathe or wiggle for a few seconds now!

Then he looked down at the ground, and, as he did so he saw a little red creature with eight long legs, and the creature wiggled one leg at the rabbit friendly-like as if to shake hands.

And, would you believe me, right in the middle of one of the flowers something white moved and wiggled.

On and on the snake wiggled through the grass, shaking his tail, and the poor rabbit followed after him.

Then she wiggled the next tiniest, and the next tiniest, and the next tiniest, till she had come to the biggest of the tiny toes.

To each toe as she wiggled it, she gave a name; when she had wiggled them all she buried her face in the fat, kicking legs.

I would attach a bit of meat to a string or straw, and wiggle it before him, to make it seem alive.

She tasted a bite, and she read a word or two, and she sipped the amber wine and wiggled her toes in the silk stockings.

To be sure, he could wiggle his ears a bit, and wink his eyes; but that was the extent of his powers.

This creature blinked at me several times very rapidly, wiggled its mustache and suddenly disappeared into the thick shadows.

Nan gave a wiggle, another scramble, and then, just as she managed to get one leg over the limb, she slipped.

And it is a good thing that Bunny could not get his feet loose just then, or he would have wiggled himself to the ground, and he might have been badly hurt, for he would have fallen on his head.

I was holding my breath when Uncle Tad began to raise up my legs, that's why I wiggled and couldn't speak.

The first thing Buddy did was to stoop and study attentively the dead snake, to see if the tail still wiggled.

Uncle Clem twisted and wiggled in his sleep until finally he could stand it no longer and awakened.

It was a rather tight fit, but Raggedy Andy wiggled and twisted until all the dolls could see of him were his two feet.

Rose was held fast in a heap of sand, and, wiggle and twist though she did, she could not get out.

The bit of green seaweed, catching on his line, had wiggled and tugged, as the tide swayed it, just as a crab would have done.

They had managed to wiggle out of the peach basket in which they had been put as they were caught from the boat.

With a sudden wiggle and a twist she crawled all the way under the fruit stand, her little legs, in the white stockings, being the last to disappear.

Rosy looked at her, and the pink spread softly all over her face and neck; but she still held her spelling-book high, and the middle finger with the ring wiggled at the back of it.

And there they sat and never even so much as wiggled a finger, until their mistress had left the room.

"Maybe you could get it out if you stood me on my head and wiggled me," Freddie said, after thinking about it.

A beam had fallen letting down a mass of earth, but was wedged in such a way as to leave a small opening above the floor, barely sufficient for a man to wiggle through.

The fish didn't jump much now; it only wiggled and flapped its tail a little, and that was just what Doctor Rabbit wanted it to do.

A chill, settling along my spine, crept upward to my scalp, until every separate hair wiggled to the roots.

The second that Billy felt its coils slip from his body, he took a long breath and ran from the tent not even stopping to wiggle his head in thanks for his preservation.

She'd jumped up half an inch in about two seconds, wiggled round some, and then come back to normal.

Without so much as a glance in my direction, he proceeded to blow on one stick and wiggle his fingers on the others.

The Lamb didn't dare to boast of his tail after this, but when he passed the others, he would look at his mother, and if he thought she wouldn't see, he would wiggle it at them.

He struggled and wiggled, but he seemed to be sinking deeper into the snow instead of getting out.

When Toby found that the fly was biting him, he gave a queer wiggle to his skin, and the fly flew off.

"Your tongue will get so tired being still so long that it won't know how to wiggle when you want it."

They were simply four scrambling Units in the Great Ant-Hill; four tiny Tadpoles in the great Schools that wiggled up and down the main Thoroughfares.

He got the trout out of the water, but with a mighty wiggle, the trout hopped off the hook and disappeared like a silver streak in the water.

Instead of starting away on a run, however, the second person stopped where Sandy stood beside the wiggling figure and looked down upon it.

My fossil fish on the wall wiggled his tail thousands of years ago, very likely millions of years.

After wiggling about for a moment he removed his cap and scratched a bald head thoughtfully.

Asked Freddie, when he had looked in the tin can and found only a few worms wiggling about after more than half an hour's digging on the part of himself and Bert.

Alice had lingered behind, for the cat showed a disposition to wiggle out of her arms, and she wanted to keep it to make an effective picture.

Alfred made frantic grabs, clutches and wiggles to climb up, only to fall back, more helpless.

I could sort of scratch it away by taking the steel-hard part of my finger in my other hand and wiggle, briskly.

Pawnee Brown had dropped down in the long grass and was now wiggling along like a snake through the bushes and between the rocks.

He's able to wiggle around a little now, and is insisting that we take off the one chain we keep on him and let him use a plate, to call his people.

It's a relief to follow something I can see, instead of trying to guess which way that beam's going to wiggle next.

I have been wiggling myself about quietly ever since they set me down, and I have got my hands a bit loose.

Why, if you can find bits like that by just wiggling your hand about in the sand, there must be lots more.

You see, Little Jack Rabbit had the habit of wiggling his nose so fast that it made everybody dizzy to look at it.

They all looked again and this time they saw funny little creatures wiggling and swimming about.

He came slowly in our direction, hopping and halting and wiggling his nose at every bush, till he heard our approach and rose on his hind legs to listen.

Mike twisted free, and, with a mad bound and wiggle, threw himself on the girl, who caught him in her arms.

And she wiggled her nose and ears and looked so funny that the Bob Whites almost laughed in her face.

"I just got a cricket in my back, so it hurts a little when I wiggle; but I got Johnny's ball, too, didn't I?"

It is the wiggling of the tail of the snake that Herbert Spencer killed thirty years ago with his little book "The Study of Sociology."

"If a man is determined to mine a claim all by himself out there, he can find a dozen different ways to wiggle out of the regulations."

All she need do was close her right eye and wiggle her left toe and then draw a long breath and make her wish.

Pete had managed to wiggle from underneath and, his hold yet unbroken, struggled at Bill's left side; Harold was on top.

This 'ere trench should have been wiggled about a bit, and then there would not have been quite so much of it.

And even if he had remained at home, no doubt she would have wiggled her way in before he could shut the door in her face.

Ears that before had never wiggled to the loudest noise came flapping forward when the door was opened.

The streets, walks, and lawns were wiggling with little parties, one or two families in each.

Tom took firm hold of the wiggling little creature and gently but very firmly pushed him straight up between the bars.

Then he stuck his bill through the hole and wiggled it until the shell cracked, and he could get his head through.

And so in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle, they wiggled their ears and looked around and wiggled their ears again.

And all the time the thumb stuck fast, and the fingers wiggled from the end of the nose of Bimbo the Snip.

And he, because he knew what they were saying and why they were saying it, he wiggled his long ears and looked long and steady at them from his deep eyes.

Bridget thudded into the narrow pilot's seat and wiggled herself into a comfortable position.

I don't see myself jumping in to protect these fellows; if they've got themselves in a hole, let them wiggle out.

You'll hide under a bush and wait until you're almost stepped on before you so much as wiggle an ear!

One little fellow shone like silver when the sunshine caught his glossy sides, and the little girl watched him wiggling here and there with much delight.

Mother promised, and father sat and looked on and pulled his lower lip until his ears almost wiggled.

Asked Bill, wiggling the rest of the way up and taking a paper like his own from Frank's envelope.

To my mind, she'd sooner be slapped in the face by us than have us try an' wiggle out of the deal.

Some grinned broadly at one another; others placed their thumbs in their ears and wiggled their fingers.

There were fish in the creek which you might catch if you could sit still long enough, without too violent wiggling of the hook when the float gave its first faint indications of a bite.

Sometimes, when more than one fly alighted on his toes at once, he wiggled all ten toes simultaneously.

The creature wiggled like a seal with a fish in sight, then slid and bumped down the steps, with Curtis following him.

When he felt none, he cautiously fingered his ribs, and then a horrid thought prompted him to wiggle his bare toes.

Already some of them in their vivid imaginations thought they could see the fish wiggling their tails and trying to get out of the little net, their scales shining in the bright sun.

He smiled at the group most tenderly, and his mustache wiggled in a most incomprehensible fashion.