WIGGLE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for WIGGLE, such as:
1. The men were wiggling in an ecstasy of excitement.
2. He tried wiggling the control stick but nothing happened.
3. Children wiggle restlessly in their chairs when waiting for parents.
4. Mrs. Shimerda kept wiggling her bare feet about nervously in the dust.
5. This was one time when she knew she couldn't wiggle out of her punishment by sitting on his knee and being sweet and pert.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WIGGLE
wiggle
 v.  move to and fro
 n.  the act of wiggling
Classic Sentence:
1  This was one time when she knew she couldn't wiggle out of her punishment by sitting on his knee and being sweet and pert.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  The evergreen arch wouldn't stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hanging baskets were filled.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
3  His watermelon-pink tongue lapped out, his whole body wiggled and his joyful contortions were as ludicrous as the gambolings of a mastiff.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
4  She saw Honey's awkward wigglings and heard her silly titters as she hung onto boys' arms, and the thought stung her to new rage, rage at herself, at Ashley, at the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Mrs. Shimerda kept wiggling her bare feet about nervously in the dust.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
6  The men were wiggling in an ecstasy of excitement.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
Example Sentence:
1  Children wiggle restlessly in their chairs when waiting for parents.
2  He tried wiggling the control stick but nothing happened.