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Examples of jiggle in a Sentence
Try to avoid jiggling the camera.
His belly jiggled like a bowlful of jelly.
Recent Examples of jiggle from the Web
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There’s no lever-jiggling or button-pushing on The Pacific, the first task chair from British designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby.
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The video shows multiple individuals darting in and out of a minivan and jiggling door handles, as the minivan proceeds down the darkened street.
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Their uniform is the blue mechanic’s overall, their keys jiggling from their belts as status symbols.
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It is outfitted with microphones that pick up a baby’s cries and respond accordingly, switching to a fast jiggling motion and louder white noise when baby is upset, then slowing to a gentle swing when baby falls asleep again.
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And if that seems too rapid, third and fourth techniques just kind of jiggle the lock open.
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The interior camera — trained at glass doors in a walkout basement — shows the man jiggling a door knob and peering in.
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The gravitational ripples washed over Earth and ever so slightly jiggled identical sets of lasers and mirrors built in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana.
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After a journey lasting 3 billion years, that is to say, a quarter of the age of the universe, those waves started jiggling LIGO’s mirrors back and forth by a fraction of an atomic diameter 20 times a second.
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Origin and Etymology of jiggle
frequentative of 2jig
JIGGLE Defined for English Language Learners
jiggle
playDefinition of jiggle for English Language Learners
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: to move or cause (something) to move with quick, short movements up and down or side to side
JIGGLE Defined for Kids
jiggle
playDefinition of jiggle for Students
jiggled
;jiggling
: to move or cause to move with quick little jerks Try not to jiggle the camera.
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