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Use wiggle in a sentence

Definition of wiggle:

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

Sentence Examples:

McNutt wiggled the toes of his good foot and regarded them reflectively.

He then watched the writhing body until its legs stopped wiggling, and he knew that it was quite dead.

He wiggled his toes luxuriously and laughed.

Then he called to Sammie to hold up the wooden gun, thinking maybe he could get hold of that, and so drag the rabbit boy out, but the gun wiggled so, when Sammie splashed around that Buddy couldn't get hold of it.

Then, all at once, oh, I guess in about two wiggles and a wag, if Sallie didn't see a nice, long, smooth, yellow carrot.

With Aunt Phoebe came "Silky," a wiggling, snapping Skye terrier.

Now, if Bondsman wiggles that stub tail of his, it means, 'yes.'

He kicked off his shoes, rubbing his feet together like he was trying to make fire, wiggling toes on the footstool.

And then he wiggled his ears, and he wrinkled up his nose as fast as fast could be.

His nose wiggled so he sneezed three times.

Asked the cat, and she wiggled her whiskers and licked her nose with her tongue, for she was hungry.

He blurted out, while the thermometer wiggled with every word he uttered.

Automatically his hands strayed to the lacing of his shoes, for his pudgy toes itched for freedom to wiggle.

The jabbing in of the stakes and the wiggling aside to escape the bull's plunge, it was like one movement.

With his back planted up against the wall of the car, his legs crossed and his feet wiggling time to the inward tune he sang, he calmly rolled half a dozen cigarettes and placed them, one by one, beside the feast.

I'll promise not to wiggle my fingers or wrinkle my nose.

Rama seemed utterly fascinated by his hands, which he wiggled and waved in front of his face.

"And curious," Art agreed, giving his fingertip a playful wiggle.

Dead snakes did not wiggle their tails until sundown.

Something brown and wiggling came up out of the water and flopped down on the wharf.

"Well, yes, I guess I did," Billie said, sort of bashful like and shy as he wiggled his horns.

He wiggled and squirmed, but still he was held fast.

His queer little nose wiggled so comically that Kate again came very near bursting out laughing.

"All tight," Ben called out as he wiggled and tried to free himself from the cocoon.

"I'll forgive you, as I know you didn't mean to do it," said the Mouse toy, with a smile that made her whiskers wiggle.

He put them in the basin in some water and sprinkled some powder on them, and in about ten minutes more, he made me get them, and they were full of clear water and there was a lot of little things that looked like wiggle tails swimming around in it.

"I can't get your skate off if you wiggle so much."

It seems to me that I can see snakes and alligators wiggling in it from here.

Then you wiggle the peg for its tightness and demand whether it be screwed in like an honest top.

Gingerly he wiggled one toe beneath the blankets.

"Monkeys wiggling in the creepers," Frank said.

Through this trap the "spooks" enter the cabinet by crawling and wiggling.

With a yelp he wiggled loose from his captors and bounded up the hill.

For a moment, when we stopped, it ceased, then wiggled forward like beast, or serpent in the underbrush.

Then he began to wiggle and wiggle at his halter.

"Then that is what my nymph is doing," asked Jack, "when it wiggles its gills so?"

Pete crouched, and wiggled his flattened body through.

He came easily enough till his tail cleared the water; then the wiggling, jerky strain was too much.

If she had held the spar up only an instant longer, the other man might have wiggled free too.

Wheatley wiggled the painful toe reflectively.

My feet are just itching to wiggle.

He wiggled, shuffled, skipped, and when the strain told on the sore old muscles, he winced, and was left at the wire!

Lass wiggled ecstatically under the unfamiliar caress.

Into the room, through the narrow aperture wiggled a hairy form, moving with eel-like speed.

Wiggling all over with happiness he sought to lick the chubby face pressed so tight against his ruff.

He turned and peered intently at me, his heavy bushy eyebrows drawn severely down and wiggling.

Blinking and squinting, he would wiggle his fingers.

For the growing boy wiggles his ears as a pup tries his teeth or a young goat hardens his horns.

Up, up, it went, sailing high over his head, the crumpled paper tail wiggling in the wind.

Dummy has just discovered a stuffed alligator that can snap its jaws and wiggle its tail.

Wiggle has discontinued telling stories about the ladies he has killed.

In vain the giant wiggled and squirmed.

If we took a drop of healthy blood and put some of these typhoid germs in it, how they would wiggle!

He wiggled his back tentatively to see whether the knife was penetrating his clothing.

His tail wiggled more pathetically than ever, and did its level best to pull him out, but without success.

And so they went on, till Uncle Josh's skates were strapped, as Joe Pearce said, "so they couldn't wiggle."

He wiggled one hand, and smiled sheepishly, as he caught sight of us.

The first time Bobby called, Rover wiggled his ears but went on dozing.

He pulled them off in turn, and started wiggling his toes meditatively.

Cold sweat oozed as I wiggled backward into the cavern again.

A tail to wag wasn't really necessary, Stern decided, when there was so much body to wiggle.

Her eyes shot fire, her bosom heaved, and she began to wiggle her bottom.

As I wiggled my fingers limply, they tingled, then the tingling turned to a burning feeling that almost made me cry out.

Do you see how he wiggles the bamboo pickets in the rack?

"Only because you were so excited your hand wiggled," said Dolly, who was always placid, whatever happened.

Silken flax beguiling smile, wiggling toes.

Effie slammed the kitchen door and Willie Jones showed how deeply impressed he was by putting his thumb on the end of his nose and wiggling his fingers in a manner that Margery had often been told was highly improper.

I tumbled through the lock and wiggled up the narrow passageway.

In each vat a blob of pink protoplasm wiggled happily, showing no sign of discomfiture.

Wiggling along on their hands and knees, the three fliers moved to the hole in the hedge.

"Maybe somebody's hurt," thought Dick, hastening his steps, but, when he managed to wiggle through the throng, and was close to the edge of the basin, he saw that it was merely the sight of some lads in the fountain that had attracted the crowd.

He did not notice in the darkness that his leap broke the fragile branch securing the boat, allowing her to drift, but at once said: "We'll have to wiggle some, for they'll be looking for me in camp pretty shortly."

He was holding it inside his coat, and it contrived to wiggle partly down the sleeve.

This time the ball was deliberately sent back to Roy as hard as Horace could send it with the result that it bounded from his hands before he could close his fingers about it and went wiggling off across the turf.

"You needn't try to wiggle out of it," he said soberly at the end of the brief recounting.

It was a singular thing, but as I stood in the doorway, I had a vivid mental picture of Edith's description of me, sitting up puppy-like to beg for a kind word, and wiggling with delight when I got it.

I managed to wiggle the next one in, my hand trembling now, but again the knob wouldn't budge.

I again tried the knob, an old one, then again, but it wouldn't budge, just wiggled slightly.

Undeterred, I wiggled it forcefully, and slowly it slipped into the knob.

Again Rick threw his arms about the wiggling, brown puppy whose tail was wagging so joyously.

He knew by the dog's track that the dog was small; he knew that the dog had a short tail, because a short groove had been "wiggled" in the dust where the dog had sat while his master was stealing the meat!

The shutter wiggled as you went away.

Tip sighed luxuriously and wiggled the toes of his roomy slippers.

Before long the big sister wiggled impatiently and said, "My beak is dreadfully tired."

They had no work to do, so they just ate food which they found in the water, and wiggled, and played tag, and whenever they were at all frightened they dived to the bottom and stayed there until they were out of breath.

His legs were spread wide apart, and he wiggled his big toes convulsively.

It is a strange thing, where the performer wiggles and shakes himself until his clothes seem to be slipping off.

The baby doubled up, and squirmed, and wiggled his toes, and gasped with glee.

Ejaculated Ned, and he pulled a wiggling beauty ashore.

By this time Ned's wiggling feet had found the topmost rung of the ladder.

With Wiggles at my hurrying heels, I fairly fled through the night, ashamed of my unreasoning terror.

The doctor wiggled and squirmed, but was unable to move.

In case of difficulty of the kind, he received no assistance from outside sources, but was compelled to wiggle and twist until he succeeded in loosing it from its hold or tore the flesh and skin from his back.

They wear yearning facial expressions; when they start to walk, they do not walk, but writhe and wiggle.

"Why does he hop up and down, side step and feint and wiggle his fingers and all that monkey business?"

Then he softly dropped the hook, with the wiggling, dangling worm, into the water.

He wavers in his mind, and wiggles his knife uncertainly.

His tail wiggled the handsome lacy train.

At five lengths, his steady six-beat leg thrash became a tired wiggle.

On and on he came, wiggling and squirming to gain every inch.