Examples of squiggle in a Sentence
Verb
a pediatrician's waiting room full of squiggling toddlers
there are some illegible notes squiggled in the margins of the old book
Noun
His handwriting looks like a bunch of squiggles.
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Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The six dancers in bright blues and greens (a seventh, originally Brown, appears at the beginning and the end) ripple and squiggle through space, intersecting and occasionally aligning, ricocheting and weaving.
—Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2026
British artist Ed Fairburn caught the drift, as can be seen in his 2017 remake of an old map of Cardiff, painted over with squiggles of green and brown to bring out the portrait hiding therein.
—Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
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Verb
The cake is gingery, light and moist, squiggled with thick cream cheese frosting.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The six dancers in bright blues and greens (a seventh, originally Brown, appears at the beginning and the end) ripple and squiggle through space, intersecting and occasionally aligning, ricocheting and weaving.
—Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
Crew anchor off Misool, a mid-oceanic squiggle of emerald islands, where the Imperial Japanese Navy hid from American spotter planes during WWII.
—Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2026
British artist Ed Fairburn caught the drift, as can be seen in his 2017 remake of an old map of Cardiff, painted over with squiggles of green and brown to bring out the portrait hiding therein.
—Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
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“Squiggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squiggle. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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