How to Use squiggle in a Sentence

squiggle

1 of 2 verb
  • The cake is gingery, light and moist, squiggled with thick cream cheese frosting.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Grooves in the hillside squiggle down toward a pasture and bike path at its base.
    Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
  • Squiggly Monster had his many eyes on the prize, but just couldn’t squiggle his way to a win.
    Andrea Towers, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Order the iconic kaya toast on fluffy milk bread, squiggled with bright green pandan-coconut jam.
    Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 June 2026
  • For me, this breakfast isn’t complete without a healthy squirt of sriracha squiggled across the entire plate.
    Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 July 2026
  • The salamanders are still squiggling commas inside them.
    Nathan Rott, NPR, 27 May 2026
  • Pairing neon squiggles with a bare base creates a striking negative-space design that's made to catch eyes.
    Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 29 May 2026
  • The tadpoles of western toads squiggle, and water skeeters perform a graceful backwoods ballet.
    Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
  • The surrounding plasma will become too hot for even radio waves to squiggle through, and for six terrifying minutes, the passengers won’t be able to talk with Mission Control.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Democrats who control the legislature have adopted a map with lines that squiggle snake-like across the state to swoop up Democratic voters and relegate Republicans to a few districts.
    David A. Lieb and Nicholas Riccardi, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2021

squiggle

2 of 2 noun
  • His handwriting looks like a bunch of squiggles.
  • There's no wrong way to make blobs and squiggles.
    Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The rest of the hair formed a squiggle on the side of her head.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In the middle was a dark squiggle that might have been a river.
    Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • They are served cold in a 16-ounce pouch with a yellow squiggle straw.
    Courtney Wilson, Chron, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Dark spots or squiggles drifting across your field of vision are called floaters.
    Cathy Nelson, Health, 13 Mar. 2026
  • This squiggle look blends shades of pink, orange, yellow, and green for a groovy mix.
    Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
  • There may not have been any squiggle brows in sight, but decades past sure didn't disappoint.
    Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 25 Feb. 2018
  • The dry-erase board down front had dissolved into a blur of colors and squiggles.
    Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Try out a squiggle-donning set with vivid shades of lime and teal, which stand out on its clear, high-shine base.
    Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 1 June 2026
  • Its inky black squiggles reappear on the white chairs, linking the two in a netherworld.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
  • There are also painterly squiggles on and around the imagery.
    Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 6 July 2018
  • Go abstract with this squiggle design.
    Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 31 Jan. 2026
  • And the length of that squiggle or the outline and shape of a body symbolize gender.
    Mary Widdicks, Quartz, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Greg Simms said, as a unique squiggle of metal off the end of the back fender was noted.
    Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • On the counter are jars of sprinkles and cakes frosted in hombre green or pink with ornate squiggles at the base.
    Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Lakes gleamed like molten metal in the dryness and on the horizon a faint squiggle of suede-soft mountains.
    The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Windham drew a Charlie Brown-style squiggle face to her own note and added it to the board.
    al, 2 Aug. 2021
  • No one is born with neural circuits for connecting the sounds of speech to squiggles on paper.
    Sarah Carr, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The concert room has splashy neon colors on the walls, a vibrant zig-zag floor pattern and alien-like squiggles on the walls.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The detail comes in the form of the squiggle that’s inspired by the spiral on a Greek column.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Kiffin is a squiggle of crayon in a world of regimented lines.
    Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 11 Nov. 2022
  • One hand has a baby pink base with red squiggles while the other has a gray-toned purple base with orange squiggles.
    Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 21 May 2026
  • At first glance, Pikaia might seem like little more than a prehistoric squiggle.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
  • In that case, manually disable the system and bring on the squiggles.
    Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2017
  • The western edge is a squiggle running slightly north-northwest to south-southeast.
    al, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The base of each tip and the design of the squiggles are different on each nail to keep the look interesting.
    Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 31 Jan. 2026
  • These hatch into larvae that tunnel within the foliage to produce the paths or squiggles.
    Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • With a crayon and on the back of an envelope, a few circles, two triangles, and a squiggle make an oink-oink.
    Jen Gann, The Cut, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Even Skinner added some ethereal synth chords and squiggles to his grooving drum duties.
    cleveland, 12 July 2023

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