How to Use waggle in a Sentence

waggle

1 of 2 verb

• He can make his ears waggle.
• He can waggle his ears.
• Bees waggle their butts to tell their hive-mates where to find a juicy stash of nectar.
  — WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
• In addition, though dogs love to stick their heads out and waggle their tongues, keep the windows shut.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Bohacek reminded the kid what to do, and the kid waggled his little hands in the air again.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
• These jiggling particles waggle the cilia, telling the corals where to head.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2010
• This part of the design also imparts a nice waggling action via its thin paddle tail.
  — David A. Rose, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2024
• And thanks to social media videos of their head-tilting, leg waggling antics, these web-slingers are in high demand.
  — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
• Pebbles twitched, branches waggled, cholla wiggled, weeds erupted then dried up and died.
  — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 20 Apr. 2026
• Listeners are instructed to waggle their tongues, raise their arms to the ceiling or simply lie back and relax.
  — oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2021
• Many animals, including a species of shark and some lizards, waggle their tails as a decoy that trick prey into coming near.
  — Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2019
• These are passed to a kayaker, who waggles them overhead, like a prize, before stowing them in a laundry basket for safekeeping.
  — Liam Archacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2023
• When the time comes to couple up, males will shake, shimmy and waggle their rears in an astounding display of eight-legged choreography.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020
• For many, this is the last image of that player with the waggling hips, at the top of the world, and unburdened by football’s brutality.
  — Jacob Whitehead, The Athletic, 30 June 2024
• The biggest action star in the world, Dwayne Johnson, known as the Rock, got his start as an eyebrow-waggling wrestler.
  — Jeremy Gordon, New York Times, 27 May 2016
• When motion control is turned on in either Splatoon game, players must waggle their hands to control all vertical-axis aiming.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2018
• Longer waggle runs indicate longer distances, while the angle of the waggle's direction indicates direction.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
• Honeybees also waggle dance — a unique and endearing way of communicating with one another.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• The quality of the resource in question is encoded in the number of waggle run repetitions and in how quickly each dancing bee comes back to repeat the successive runs.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
• In these noisy and dynamic few milliseconds the fat rear Michelins hazed and the Pista’s posterior waggled left, then right, violently, a 710-hp twerk.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
• When Kendal Sager lifts the top of her beehive, tens of thousands of bees waggle across the honeycomb — their cells filled with bright yellow, orange and pink pollen collected from flowers in Sager's neighborhood.
  — Juliana Kim, NPR, 20 May 2026
• And Adem Bona was a whirling dervish of a double-double, dropping in an and-one layup as the Trojans tried to chip away into a second-half lead, slapping his bicep and waggling his tongue and visibly sucking the life out of Galen.
  — Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024
• These massive mammals greet each other with a mix of gestures and sounds—by flapping their ears, making rumbling noises, waggling their tails and reaching out their trunks, scientists reported last week in the journal Communications Biology.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
• The story is more dignified and tonally consistent than in the last film — Redmayne never has to do another butt-waggling Erumpet seduction dance — but much of it plays out with just as little weight as Fantastic Beasts’ silliest moments.
  — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018
• When LaBeija, as Gus the Theatre Cat, finally strolled onstage to revisit his glory days, waggling his long, polished claws, a younger Gus (Jonathan Burke) appeared, like a mirror dancing toward him.
  — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026

waggle

2 of 2 noun

• There might be a brief nod or a tiny waggle of fingers to an adoring spectator, but little else.
  — Sam Borden, New York Times, 16 July 2016
• Aside from dropping a bat waggle in between his setup and his swing, there have been no major or notable changes to his stance.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 8 May 2018
• Researchers discovered that puff adders in the wild waggle both their tongues and their tails to lure prey, like a prolonged and high-stakes hokey-pokey dance.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2017
• But the waggle dance is just one form of honeybee communication.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• The play-action waggle play was designed to go to Smith, a defensive linemen who had his number called as the third-string fullback.
  — Luke Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2019
• Like the democratic society of the bees, in which consensus arrives through waggle dancing.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2020
• Researchers found that the receivers of the dance weren’t just following the direction and distance indicated by the waggle dance.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
• The right-handed-hitting Acuna has no extraneous movement, no bat waggle, no hip action.
  — Ray Glier, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
• Beset by these seemingly involuntary waggles, as they were known, Garcia appeared fussy and nervous.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2017
• Nurses and foragers are very distinct sub-castes that differ in their bodies, mental abilities, and behaviour – foragers, for example, are the ones that use the famous waggle dance.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2012
• Did Groucho’s eyebrow waggles and those brothers working in insane sync influence my dim view of Carmelo Anthony’s tendency to play isolation hoops?
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
• Already Guerrero seems to be able to convey of-the-moment phrasings and character directions with a few emphatic motions—a roller-coaster swoop here, a waggle of the fingers there—and get an immediate response from the choristers.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
• And considering the physical effort bees exert — from the waggle dance that communicates the location of a food source to the forceful beating of wings — Segura had a unique physicality to inform her choreography.
  — Marcia Manna, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• Gyroscopic controls in video games used to be limited to features like the Wii waggle, but that situation has changed in recent years, thanks to support for a mix of motion and joystick controls in popular Switch and PlayStation games.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2022