(v. i.) To twist about briskly with contor/ions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
(2) He cut in and provided a pass for Sneijder, whose shot squirmed wide off Rodríguez; he then clipped a ball in that just evaded Sneijder; and soon after that he appealed for another penalty.
(3) And yet for all his anti-establishment credentials, Mr Galloway is as practised as any of his New Labour enemies at squirming away from awkward questions.
(4) If the thought of eating fermented cabbage makes you squirm, then perhaps you're not ready for it – but plenty of others are.
(5) The Spurs were missing simple shots but insidiously squirmed their way back into the game, with James returning to Earth and Leonard in fine shooting form.
(6) But it squirms about conceding them to people it does not approve of.
(7) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
(8) President Andrzej Duda and Beata Szydło, the prime minister, take their orders from him and squirm for his approval.
(9) He could only squirm in the stands as Robbie Keane lofted the clearest chance of the game into the face of Mark Schwarzer, who also foiled Kuyt and Torres.
(10) Bodies squirmed with the embarrassment of eye contact and personal honesty.
(11) But the wording was left deliberately ambiguous and before the ink was dry on the statement, senior German officials, being grilled in Brussels by gobsmacked German journalists, were squirming and heavily qualifying the promise to shore up banks directly.
(12) In the last photos of her, taken barely 10 minutes before the Russian bombs landed, she shows off a new bracelet and freshly painted nails with glee, then squeezes a kiss from her squirming baby sister.
(13) For Cahun was a writer, first and foremost – and no amount of artistic squirming could change that.
(14) The Friday afternoon audience for the film of John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars was squirming with more anticipation than any audience I’ve seen since the first screening of Endless Love in July 1981.
(15) From the rebound, Lennon's shot deflected off Colback, hit the post and squirmed to safety.
(16) But corporations, which thrive on their sense of power and control, hate nothing more than having to say sorry unless they are forced to do so because they are squirming on the end of a hook for doing something particularly reprehensible.
(17) With five minutes remaining Aleksandar Kolarov took aim from outside the area and hit the attempt straight at Jonathan Bond, only for the ball to squirm under the goalkeeper and into the net.
(18) A Russia free-kick from just inside the halfway line lands evades a Spanish defender and land at Pavlychenko's feet about eight yards out, but he squirms his shot just wide.
(19) Team Miliband squirms a bit at this, not entirely sure if it might not be so.
(20) Branson has even smoked weed with Sam, a revelation that continues to make his son squirm.
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.