What's the difference between whizz and wriggle?

Whizz


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crucially, according to IBM whizz David Gondek, Watson has the ability to learn, and so engineers have been feeding it with tens of thousands of books' worth of information.
  • (2) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
  • (3) Those Lords resisting an elected chamber had better prove their vaunted independence by kicking up an almighty stink at being denied any voice in the main cuts legislation whizzing through Westminster.
  • (4) The charity said it wanted to roll back the trend whereby councils made cuts in frontline services to balance squeezed budgets – and the care industry, which employs a million workers, sent staff whizzing between the homes of vulnerable people's houses in shifts as short as 15 minutes.
  • (5) While shopping centres, stations, airports and many other places are generally private land, whizzing around on a hoverboard requires the permission of the landowner.
  • (6) The Bay Area UASI helped to fund Urban Shield this year, and the DHS even has its own stall in the vendors’ show where it is showing off the latest whizz-bang tools created by its science and technology directorate.
  • (7) Volleys of bullets from the rebels' Kalashnikovs whizzed mostly towards army positions, but some flew down the boulevard and prompted those who had crept too close to throw themselves against walls and to the floor.
  • (8) A PR whizz, Palikot looks to have eaten away at support for the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), which won only about 8.2% of the vote.
  • (9) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan, Cardiff, veggischmooze.blogspot.com Makes 10 blintzes 200g plain flour A pinch of salt 50g butter or margarine, melted 25ml olive oil 400ml milk 2 organic free-range eggs A little oil, to fry Icing sugar and sour cream, to serve For the filling 300g soft cheese 15g vanilla sugar Grated zest of ½ lemon 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, to taste Pinch of salt 50g chopped raisins or dried fruit (optional) Icing sugar and sour cream to serve 1 Put all the pancake ingredients apart from the oil and filling in a food processor and whizz.
  • (10) "Month on month, we are losing whizzes who'll basically say, 'I'm sorry, I am going to take three times the salary and the car and whatever else.'"
  • (11) Well, that's the nature of the medium; as it whizzes past the eyes it seems very relevant but the malady of reality TV stars is that their shelf life expires, like dog years, by the power of seven.
  • (12) But a whizz around the BBC website reveals a story posted just five days before the Panorama broadcast, explaining the possibilities of tourism to North Korea.
  • (13) He believes that the private ownership of Global, headed by former Capital whizz kid Ashley Tabor and backed by money from the Irish racing magnates JP McManus and John Magnier, will allow more space for clarity of thought.
  • (14) It whizzed just wide, as did a thunderous 25-yard drive from Cissé two minutes later.
  • (15) Toure has a shot from distance that whizzes past the post.
  • (16) "Mountain bikes whizzing in and out of trees, jumping ramps above horses' heads, around an established sunken horse track, is an accident waiting to happen."
  • (17) The two men crossed two more streets with bullets whizzing around them before they met up with the rest of their men, a dozen soldiers who were taking cover from a regime tank.
  • (18) Despite the diversity of his career, a common thread throughout all his films, from the gleeful highs of Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Crimson Tide, to the deadening lows of his first film The Hunger, Revenge and Domino (Keira Knightley plays a bounty hunter – let us speak no more about it), is the whizz-bang-chop-cut style.
  • (19) One witness, Ibrahim Ghaleb Mohammad al-Sawary, the son of one of the factory directors, told the investigation he heard “whizzing followed by a very loud explosion”.
  • (20) They chanted “Hands up, don’t shoot!” as shoppers whizzed past in search of heavily-discounted TVs and vacuum cleaners.

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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