Squirming

Word SQUIRMING
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Definitions and meanings of "Squirming"

What do we mean by squirming?

To twist one's body with snakelike motions.

To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.

To evade a question, an interviewer etc.

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The word "squirming" in example sentences

That I can't read it without squirming is my problem not hers. ❋ Monica Edinger (2010)

For anyone who enjoys the sight of liberals squirming, that is the nicest touch of all: the former Tridentine Rite now bears the name of the man who convened Vatican II. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What followed was not the worst of George's lifetime of mortifications, but he vividly recalled his squirming embarrassment in the backseat as the chauffeur got out of the car and set about changing the tire. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But with nothing eternal before me but death, given for a brief spell this yeasty crawling and squirming which is called life, why, it would be immoral for me to perform any act that was a sacrifice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I don't know whence you get the idea that I'm "squirming". ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

Are the students kind of squirming around and uncomfortable? ❋ Unknown (2006)

And well, we were kind of squirming along with him at times. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Just above her, fire roared out of the fifth-story window as though it were fed by forced draft, the tongues and billows of orange flame shooting halfway out over the street like a kind of squirming canopy over her head. ❋ Finney, Jack (1995)

This affair has caused a great deal of "squirming" about Staunton, & it is thought that a considerable amount of this fund will be found in hands that will find it inconvenient to fork over. ❋ Cyrus Alexander (1858)

He even needles the Stimulus Bill opponents by noting, "They were all kind of squirming in their seats," at his ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was kind of squirming about to get us to war come what may and obviously hoping he could get Bush to cooperate in a UN resolution. ❋ Mikey Likes It! (2010)

Are all those left-wing Canadian pundits now "squirming" at Barack Obama? ❋ Unknown (2009)

It’s my high school friends who felt a kind of squirming discomfort walking the halls at the local public school to attend our driver’s ed classes, and breathing a sigh of relief to find themselves back at our private Catholic high school, and never realizing that it was because there were Black students present at the public school and none (okay, maybe one, in a school of 400) at ours. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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