Sentence examples for wriggle for from inspiring English sources

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You wriggle for comfort and someone records this movement.

The only thing I can compare it with is the tuna-fishing sequence from Rossellini's "Stromboli," when a hundred enraged fish churn, thresh, and wriggle for their lives.

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Vick wriggled for 10 yards on a fourth-and-1.

It's alive!" To demonstrate this point, Mr. Oishi slapped a piece of abalone on the counter, and it wriggled for two seconds.

As with Köhler and Wulff, the damage to Merkel was not just that she had personally chosen him, but that, like Wulff, he had wriggled for a long time on the hook without understanding the political harm being done.

Kroos wriggles for space in the USA box now though, but the defense work well in numbers and the ball falls for Howard to grab it in the end.

Though every actor claims to fear typecasting, and many wriggle spectacularly at its encroachment (Johnny Depp has been wriggling for twenty-five years now), I suspect that most understand that it results from an ecstatic harmony between actor and character that is, in fact, their vocation's pinnacle.

It's worth quoting that one in full: It is curious how common sense, wriggling for an escape from absurd conclusions, has been apt to reach a preference for wholly 'wasteful' forms of loan expenditure rather than for partly wasteful forms, which, because they are not wholly wasteful, tend to be judged on strict 'business' principles.

And so today, like most days, at the first hint of sunrise, Lev clambered into our bed and onto my chest and wriggled for a while, using his legs to do a series of short violent squat thrusts, forcing himself upward towards my face, like a combination inchworm and tiny drunken Scotsman desperately attempting to head butt you in the face.

It bans the use of ground forces for "combat operations"—leaving some wriggle room for emergency actions by special forces.

The problem will come when the New Zealanders wriggle free for 10 minutes or so.

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