How to Use wriggle out of in a Sentence

wriggle out of

verb
  • Dion says as the dog wearing antlers like the Grinch’s pooch, Max, wriggles out of her grasp.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Ibis aren’t trying to wriggle out of their reputation.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Video shows the mother bear peeking her head out from the den and then wriggling out of it, signaling for the cubs to follow her.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The legal battle over his attempt to wriggle out of his Twitter takeover was widely reported.
    — Jacob Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Bergvall’s ball-carrying traits mirror those of Anderson, a player who can wriggle out of tight spaces and works hard off the ball.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • Instead, Brewers closer du jour Salomon Torres wriggled out of it.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The character's love for hijinks and adventure kept longtime viewers on their toes to see how Luke would wriggle out of each escalating predicament next.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The Tigers did strike late, scoring a run in the ninth inning and putting the tying run on base, but Justin Topa was able to wriggle out of the jam and close out his first save of the season.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2026
  • But Bernardio wriggled out of the inning by getting Kyle Higashioka to pop out to catcher Hunter Goodman in foul territory.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
  • Rosauer struck out 10 in her four innings for Yorkville (1-3), wriggling out of several jams and teaming with senior reliever Ellie Fox to strike out 16.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The fun of watching Survivor is seeing contestants wriggle out of seemingly impossible binds through social skills, but when that becomes impossible, the show renders itself only frustrating.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2026
  • To wriggle out of Joseph’s grasp, Michael hires a brash young lawyer, John Branca, played by Miles Teller, who lends the coolly confident character a delightfully rough edge.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Land is a unique asset, at the center of booms and busts since Babylon, and will be here long after Meta or Microsoft or Google try to wriggle out of their data-center leases, should the AI buildout prove to be overdone.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Nov. 2025

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