How to Use waggle in a Sentence

waggle

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

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