The baby squirmed a lot when I tried to hold him.
She squirmed under her father's angry stare.
The children squirmed with delight.
He tried to hold onto her but she squirmed free.
The frog squirmed out of his hands.
The gory details of the story had me squirming in my seat.
Recent Examples on the WebIn 1723, Franklin, squirming under his brother’s rule, flees the Boston print shop.—Adam Smyth, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024 He’s spent the last several weeks gag-ordered and squirming as his salacious behavior is examined in forensic detail at a hush-money, election-fraud trial in New York.—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024 The younger kids played and squirmed through the crowd.—Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024 What’s teen-age about it is the combination of squirming lust with an awkwardness, masked by bravado, about where to go from there: on the rare occasions when a man and a woman meet in these paintings, there may be a flurry of loud shapes but never anything resembling an erotic spark.—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for squirm
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