(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.
Writhe
Definition:
(v. t.) To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.
(v. t.) To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
(v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.
(v. i.) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
(2) Writhing response was more influenced after systemic administration of drugs while hot plate latencies was not.
(3) For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
(4) Both tonazocine and zenazocine were antinociceptive in writhing tests and in the i.a.
(5) administered DPDYN were determined in two nociceptive tests, involving thermal cutaneous (tail-flick) and chemical visceral (AcOH-induced writhing) stimuli, in which mu and kappa receptors are known to be activated differentially.
(6) administered Asn-Ala-Gly-Ala (NAGA), a partial sequence of beta-lipotropin, was investigated using the tail-pressure, hot-plate and phenylbenzoquinone (PBQ)-induced writhing tests in mice.
(7) injection of histidyl-proline diketopiperazine [cyclo (His-Pro)], an active metabolite of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) in mice produced an antinociceptive effect in a dose-dependent manner as measured in four antinociceptive tests; tail-pressure, tail-flick, hot-plate and acetic acid writhing.
(8) The results obtained were as follows: (1) In the analgesic effects, RIII and R97 inhibited markedly the acetic acid-induced writhing in mice, but in reducing pain induced by heat, R111 and R97 showed negative results.
(9) BW A4C and BW A797C had little or no effect on carrageenin-induced hyperalgesia in rats or phenyl-benzoquinone-induced writhing in mice.
(10) injection and was still observable 4 hr after injection, demonstrating a time course similar to that of the antinociceptive effect of CRF in the writhing test.
(11) On the contrary, latencies in hot plate test were more affected than the writhing response after intracerebroventricular administration.
(12) This compound, when administered orally, was equipotent to morphine in protecting against mouse writhing.
(14) A 6-year old girl, the 3rd case, developed episodes of opisthotonous, upward rolling of the eyeballs, protrusions of the tongue, intermittent writhing movements of the upper limbs, and drowsiness following the ingestion of 6 tablets of chloroquine sulfate for suspected diagnosis of malaria.
(15) Decrement of spontaneous movement, inhibition of writhing, prolongation of hexobarbital-induced hypnosis, muscle relaxation, inhibition of acetic acid-induced capillary permeability, hypothermia, antipyretic effect in mice; excitation of respiration in rabbits; nerve blocking action in the isolated sciatic nerve of frogs; cardiotonic effect in the isolated atria of guinea pigs; contraction of the isolated ileum of rabbits and guinea pigs; contraction of the aorta of guinea pigs; and relaxation of the isolated trachea of guinea pigs were common properties observed after separate application of CB and DT.
(16) SST antagonist and cysteamine produced a significant analgesia in the writhing test but had no effect in the hot plate and tail pinch test.
(17) Similar results were obtained by acetic acid writhing tests.
(18) In the kaolin-induced writhing response in mice, which is shown to be mainly dependent on the action of bradykinin, T-614 reduced not only the writhing frequency but also the peritoneal levels of bradykinin in a dose-dependent manner.
(19) When injected i.p., PGI2, carbacyclin and iloprost (agonists at the PGI2 receptor) induced writhing.
(20) When analgesic action was tested by the writhing and Haffner's methods in mice, the compound revealed a more potent activity than did mepirizole and aminopyrine.