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Examples of squirm in a Sentence
The baby squirmed a lot when I tried to hold him.
She squirmed under her father's angry stare.
The children squirmed with delight.
He tried to hold onto her but she squirmed free.
The frog squirmed out of his hands.
The gory details of the story had me squirming in my seat.
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In 1723, Franklin, squirming under his brother’s rule, flees the Boston print shop.
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Adam Smyth, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
He’s spent the last several weeks gag-ordered and squirming as his salacious behavior is examined in forensic detail at a hush-money, election-fraud trial in New York.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
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Adam Smyth, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
He’s spent the last several weeks gag-ordered and squirming as his salacious behavior is examined in forensic detail at a hush-money, election-fraud trial in New York.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
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“Squirm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squirm. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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