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Examples of wiggle in a Sentence
Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 22 Nov. 2023
During a dance sequence, there’s a close-up of elves wiggling their bottoms.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
Joining in, Browne put his hands behind his back and wiggled his fingers like tail feathers.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
Part of that’s because Midnights is obviously a pop album, without songs that could wiggle into other fields like country.
—Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
The trailer should securely attach to your bike without wiggling or coming loose.
—Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 16 Oct. 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy is trying to use his presidential campaign as an excuse to wiggle out of legal proceedings against him.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
But knifefish are not the only ones that wiggle with purpose.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2023
Just like the manual version of the same machine, this option sits tightly against the countertop and doesn’t bounce or wiggle while in use.
—Laura Denby, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
Preps, al, 15 Sep. 2023
Stella, the family’s elderly dog, wiggles and weaves around my legs in greeting.
—Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
This cross between a bottle plug and a darter darts from side to side while maintaining the tight, seductive wiggle of a bottle plug.
—Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
Adding too much water, however, will hamper the plug’s wiggle.
—Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
Henry, who also showed wiggle and burst in returning kickoffs and punts, caught two passes for 25 yards, including a one-handed 10-yard touchdown grab in mid-air in the fourth quarter.
—Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2023
Zhao and colleagues are now trying to build a model to predict the wiggle effect.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 July 2023
Each one of her tumbling passes was landed without a wiggle or a wobble.
—Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
Grid operators will need much faster frequency control strategies to overcome this wiggle effect and reduce instability, Zhao says.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 July 2023
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Word History
Verb
Middle English wiglen, from or akin to Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wiggelen to totter; akin to Old English wegan to move — more at way
Verb
13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
Noun
1816, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Wiggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wiggle. Accessed 7 Dec. 2023.
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