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How to use squirming in a sentence

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Johnny was refusing to eat his Cheerios and was squirming in his chair as his mother tried to feed him.
I noticed him stealing looks in my direction every few seconds and I realized that my squirming and tapping was annoying him.
There's really no good way to carry a rifle when crawling on hands and knees, or when squirming to the lip of a ravine.
Politicians make for an unedifying spectacle when they are cattle-prodded by party policy into squirming and writhing in unison.
Even the layman can coo over the magnificent ribbed vaulting, an 11 th-century innovation that had European architects squirming with envy.
The Wolf girl was grunting and squirming, her body wiggling from side to side.
They were lying utterly still or squirming in discomfort, some cradling injured arms.
Strapped in their car seats, children make nightmarish passengers, wriggling, squirming and whining.
She tried to pick him up but he was squirming and twisting to lick her face so much that she had to set him down.
I lay there on the wood floors of my kitchen, squirming, as my body wanted to run itself against a wall.
I shouted, squirming and twisting my arm, trying to get it out of his grip.
Peering out past the bank, I could see our three shapes in the water, twisting and squirming in the current.
There were tears in the audience too, but also not a little squirming at the emotional pyrotechnics.
He was a rabid snob and a squirming snake-pit of prejudice, without even the intelligence to realise that other people were as human as himself.
She knew no greater thrill than coaxing a child from the womb, and receiving it alive into her own hands, wet, warm and squirming.
The arms of the octopuses were still squirming and moving and flopping in every direction.
With a pair of forceps, he lifted what looked like a squirming worm out of the jar.
They might have cheerfully stomped her to death had not the dates sequestered the squirming she-devil.
I witness the robin absquatulate, first squirming under the open door like a rat might, then out the door hole into the night lit ice.
She is constantly on the move, leaping up or squirming in her seat when she has a point to make, or a writer to quote.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The bags these women were emptying on the tables were squirming masses of life.
Down the field a Princeton halfback had caught the ball and was squirming back.
Stacy came out squirming like an angleworm being pulled from the ground after a spring rain.
The sack rose and fell as if something under it was squirming about convulsively.
She could remember her, squirming and spluttering in her high nursery chair.
On and on he came, wiggling and squirming to gain every inch.
The subsiding wave showed them on the ground, some lying motionless, others squirming and writhing.
But just then the dog, squirming and rubbing against the newcomer's legs, opened his mouth and barked.
Teeka rolled her eyes in his direction and strained the squirming mite still closer to her.
A mother does not have to learn to love her helpless, squirming brood.
They are creeping, crawling, squirming things, they with their soft hands and their blue eyes.
The blue line gave and Lane fell through, squirming, kicking.
The captor could not fight to advantage upon the swaying bough, burdened as he was by a squirming, struggling captive, so he dropped quickly to the ground beneath.
Oti baited his hook with a piece of squid, which he tore with his teeth from the live and squirming monster, and hook and bait sank in white flames to the bottom.
Meanwhile, Stokes portrays George with hilariously diminishing resistance to Richard's inexhaustibly inventive machinations for squirming out of his predicament.
At that moment Michael was lying squirming on his back a dozen feet away, his legs straight up in the air, both fox-terriers worrying with well-stimulated ferociousness.
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