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Waggled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Waggle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Other than waggling, they don't have articulation."
  • (2) Lord Turner replies that neither the BoE nor the FSA were making a "regulatory instruction" (just a waggle of Merv's eyebrows?).
  • (3) Instead, all we've seen so far is waving and waggling, and that's not for me.
  • (4) Experiments on the division of labour in honeybee hives have revealed why some bees do the waggle dance while others nurse their queens.
  • (5) Back in Budapest, watching Charli and her all-girl band on stage, it's easy to see the appeal: live, she is a force, years of arena support slots whirled into a show full of wild mane-flicking, stomping, impressive back bends and tongue-waggling.
  • (6) Precocial copulation in 2-wk.-old male chicks, described behaviorally as free mount, tread, posterior contact, waggle, peek, and seize, was developed through hand-training experience and androgen treatment.
  • (7) Health secretary Jeremy Hunt might also be waggling a toe over the water with a column in the Telegraph today setting out how he thinks Britain could stay in the single market but not with that pesky free movement element: “a Norway-plus option”.
  • (8) In the courtroom below it was elbow-waggling room only as the usual throng of briefs and their bagmen were swamped by a crush of interested parties, among them a smattering of furrowed-looking men in replica shirts who would keep a determined vigil throughout the day.
  • (9) Farage wore the look of a man ground down by repetition; a man who knew that every aside, every waggled eyebrow, every non-joke that sounded like a joke because it was inexplicably delivered in a jokey see-saw cadence, would be greeted by the Ukip faithful with the same graceless “weeeeey” noise that daytime drinkers make in crap pubs whenever the barmaid drops a glass.
  • (10) Photograph: Rex Features Rest assured that Riva's waggling feet do not feature in the final cut of Amour – a film that sticks largely to the same book-lined apartment, keeping pace with its characters as they move inexorably towards the exit door.
  • (11) When performing their famous " waggle dance ", they even use an inbuilt clock to make allowances for the shift in the position of the sun during the time elapsed since they have flown back to the hive.
  • (12) If you could zoom out beyond the moon, beyond time itself, and picture the entirety of humankind since its creation to its eventual end, and somethow witness it repeatedly pinging the phrase PLEASE AUTHENTICATE MY EXISTENCE back and forth between itself, we'd probably resemble a squirming galaxy of bees endlessly performing needy little waggle dances in front of each other, minus the useful pollen co-ordinates.
  • (13) 1996 Michael Jackson's messianic performance of his new single, Earth Song, proved too much for Jarvis Cocker, who clambered on stage and waggled his bum defiantly in the King of Pop's direction, before being escorted away by security.
  • (14) "Then we work like this," she waggles her tongue with the rapaciousness of Michael Douglas, "and then we pick ourselves again."
  • (15) For three decades, the Brit awards have entertained the masses with fluffs, gaffes, pranks and waggled bums, while gathering the great and good of the music industry for an evening of back-slapping and recognition of the year's achievements.
  • (16) If their plastic grips and waggling antennae bore a passing resemblance to a £15 novelty golf ball finder, that was no coincidence.
  • (17) Her song finished second in the Austrian competition after Trackshittaz's hip-hop atrocity Woki Mit Deim Popo ("Waggle your arse"), but this year the national broadcaster, ORF, chose Conchita as the country's representative.
  • (18) Saenko then barges into Marchena, prompting the referee to waggle his finger at both of them.
  • (19) "I have panic attacks and I have breakdowns, and stuff like that, so I feel like if I'm just like la la la la la …" she waggles her head as if it's in the clouds.
  • (20) Behind Henson, Frank Oz was adjusting Miss Piggy, doing her splendid diva head-waggle as she addressed her "Kermie".

Wriggle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
  • (v. t.) To move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting and squirming; like a worm.
  • (a.) Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Welbeck's goal drought came to an end when Rafael da Silva wriggled clear on the right and managed to dig out a deep cross that the unmarked Adnan Januzaj, whom Moyes felt came in for some rough treatment, headed against the far post.
  • (2) A new text, seen by the Guardian, was introduced at midnight and went some way to easing the fears of developing countries that rich countries could wriggle out of their obligations.
  • (3) A rebellion against Wall Street efforts to wriggle free from recent banking reforms picked up momentum in Congress on Thursday as House Democrats dramatically withdrew support for passage of the US budget in a knife-edge procedural vote.
  • (4) Obama did not commit America to any new action, giving them additional wriggle room to frame climate legislation with a strong chance of being passed in the Senate.
  • (5) The Milan goalkeeper then forced away Xavi's shot after Iniesta had wriggled free with some maddeningly good footwork.
  • (6) Chances were scarce for them but the substitute Gervinho almost wriggled through from Cazorla's pass while Giroud missed a pass to the Spaniard.
  • (7) The latter had collected Stephen Ireland’s pass beyond Palace’s back-line and wriggled round Wayne Hennessey, the open goal gaping, only to sky his finish horribly over the bar.
  • (8) The ECHR does need reform, which is why Labour has called for Strasbourg to do more to improve the quality of its judges and apply the ‘margin of appreciation’, giving member states the wriggle room to interpret decisions appropriately.” Landmark human rights judgments • Ireland v UK.
  • (9) 14 min: Zabaleta gets on the end of a beautifully angled David Silva pass on the right-hand side of the Dortmund penalty area and tries to shimmy and wriggle his way towards goal from the goal-line.
  • (10) We endlessly said council finances had wriggle-room.
  • (11) The Belgian held off Ciaran Clark to wriggle infield and spit a shot which flew through Brad Guzan’s legs at the near post.
  • (12) The lack of specifics in Shorten’s position has given factional powerbrokers on both sides of the argument wriggle room to both advance and thwart the cause of party reform at the July conference.
  • (13) He twists and turns, but can't wriggle clear to make space for the shot and Chelsea hack it clear.
  • (14) Zusi wriggles around the box and cuts the ball back but Houston's massed defense again blocks.
  • (15) Turner suggested there could be a fresh wave of repossessions in the US in coming months, as banks that have wriggled free of the government's bail-out tighten the screws on borrowers.
  • (16) Frankly he should stop making excuses and wriggling.
  • (17) To elucidate the ataxic mechanism of Wriggle mouse Sagami (WMS), a behavioural pharmacological investigation was carried out by open-field study.
  • (18) Savvas Neophytou of Panmure Gordon reckons there is wriggle room for Pfizer to bid more (because it has technically made a proposal, not a final offer.
  • (19) Indeed it was Republicans, not Democrats, who made history when it came to gender Tuesday It was a similar story in Colorado, where Gardner wriggled free from Democratic attempts to paint him as an extremist .
  • (20) Once in, however, managing to wriggle out again without knocking your head on the ceiling would be quite a feat.

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