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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Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Breaking water in the morning and shoulders squiggling free in the dark of evening.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2025
Sculptural squiggle handles make each piece feel like a gallery-worthy object.
—Angela Tafoya, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2025
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Verb
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
Breaking water in the morning and shoulders squiggling free in the dark of evening.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
Noun
The new owner of Dairy Kastle could’ve added French fries to the menu, created a drive-thru lane or changed the longtime logo to something other than that cartoony incomplete sunshine with blue words and a green squiggle.
—Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2025
Sculptural squiggle handles make each piece feel like a gallery-worthy object.
—Angela Tafoya, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Squiggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squiggle. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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