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Squiggle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.
  • (v. i.) To move about like an eel; to squirm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the question of what writers owe their families is as old as the squiggles on papyrus in Tutankhamun’s tomb.
  • (2) Put simply it’s, “What the actual fuck?” “I don’t even think you are human!” cries one listener, flabbergasted by Broke Up and its squiggling rave synths, which sound as if they’re gasping for life.
  • (3) Among hipster witch-house acts, the nomenclatural trend is for unicode symbols, all squiggles and shapes; names such as GL▲SS †33†H and †‡† which aren't just hard to find on MySpace, they're almost impossible to type.
  • (4) The 27-year-old accused said: "The envelope says 'Ozzie', with some hearts and a squiggle, and then it says on the front of the card: 'Roses are red, violets are blue'.
  • (5) Thanks to the Mr Squiggles employed at PricewaterhouseCoopers and the work of some industrious journalists , the public now knows what an international tax “minimisation” scheme looks like.
  • (6) The art has a black squiggle spray-painted over it, the work of an apparent Banksy hater who, according to Goya, was stopped mid-defacement by a group of men who tackled him.
  • (7) When architect Frank Gehry unveiled his plans for a museum shaped like a massive glass cloud in the heart of Paris it looked little more than a few squiggles on a piece of paper.
  • (8) He told the court: “The envelope says ‘Ozzie’, with some hearts and a squiggle, and then it says on the front of the card: ‘Roses are red, violets are blue’.
  • (9) Piketty's figures show a clear upward trend to inequality in the UK since the 70s; the FT's preferred official data dissolves into a series of squiggles that show nothing conclusive.
  • (10) A commissioned mural is better – then you don’t get all the tagging.” Tagging is the tradition of writing your graffiti name everywhere, usually just a quick, illegible squiggle.
  • (11) Search hard, and phalluses appear among the squiggles (though American critics sometimes confused them with carrots or rockets), and in 1961 the juicy Ferragosto paintings recreated the mid-August holiday with lurid colours and brown scatological smears, applied once again with the left hand: Roland Barthes aptly described them as gestures of "dirtying", "deranging the morality of the body".

Wiggle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water.
  • (n.) Act of wiggling; a wriggle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Ian Wright, the chair of the then business innovations and skills select committee and one of the MPs behind Thursday’s motion, said the criticism of their work by Green’s team was an attempt to “wiggle off the hook”.
  • (2) Similarities and differences between the neural control of lordosis and ear wiggling in infant and adult rats suggest that the infant sex-like behaviors may be precursors of adult female sexual behavior.
  • (3) Eagle has since said that her pinkie wiggle was "commenting on the size of GDP growth".
  • (4) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
  • (5) There was little about business, again, and some of the spending language conceals the fact that Labour may be quietly creating a very considerable amount of wiggle-room on investment – as much as £50bn each year, according to the IFS.
  • (6) Ear wiggling was disrupted by transections throughout the hindbrain and was facilitated only in females by transections throughout the forebrain (anterior to the mammillary bodies).
  • (7) Simple models are used to calculate the inelastic light scattering spectrum of motile bacteria when wiggling motions are included in addition to translational displacement.
  • (8) We are not letting anyone wiggle out of any commitments and I have every confidence that the government will honour its commitments,” she added.
  • (9) However, analysts expect that the Green party's decision to rule itself out of the future coalition could allow chancellor Angela Merkel some wiggle room in scaling back the speed of the shutdown, expected to cost €550m.
  • (10) 5.58pm BST In Mitt Romney 's ceremonial end to his world tour – the traditional interview with Fox News – Romney appeared to try and wiggle out of his "cultural" argument regarding Israel's superiority over Palestine.
  • (11) Such cuts would presumably be ones that were considered but rejected in favour of the tax credit cuts in July.” The only other way to avoid a Commons vote would be if the OBR reduced their forecast for welfare spending, since that would give the chancellor a “little more wiggle room under the cap”.
  • (12) I said, ‘What’s so funny?’ and they told me that my toes were wiggling.
  • (13) US manoeuvre in South China Sea leaves little wiggle room with China Read more The guided-missile destroyer reportedly received orders to travel within 12 nautical miles (22.2km, or 13.8 miles) of the Spratlys’ Mischief and Subi reefs, which are at the heart of a controversial Chinese island building campaign that has soured ties between Washington and Beijing.
  • (14) He took on a respected urine-sample collector named Dino Laurenzi , whose decision to store samples at his office ultimately allowed Braun the wiggle room he needed to overturn his suspension for testing positive for PEDs.
  • (15) These data suggest that facilitation from the hypothalamus is required for lordosis in the infant rat and the forebrain inhibitory systems for ear wiggling are functional in female infants by 6 days of age.
  • (16) After Lynch wiggles for three yards, Seattle face a 3rd & 6...in the shotgun, Wilson takes off before sending a floater downfield that barley escapes the fingers of Eric Reid - instead, it falls safely into the hands of Doug Baldwin for 22 yards.
  • (17) She leans forward and wiggles her bum while clutching a teddy bear.
  • (18) It was found that estrous females showed about twice as much ear wiggling in the presence of intact males as in the presence of gonadectomized male and female rats.
  • (19) Before the election Abbott vowed to end uncertainty by "guaranteeing that no school will be worse off over the forward estimates period" but Pyne’s new formulation leaves wiggle room for the states to be blamed.
  • (20) Facial wiggle that resulted from direct electrical facial nerve stimulation caused synchronous contraction of all reinnervated strap muscles under study; this was documented on film and through facial and strap muscle activity tracings.

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