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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
squirm .
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Examples
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She has a rather strong urge to place her mouth just there, to lick and to suck and to play with that portion of his throat until he squirms from the want of her.
Fic Update amberfocus 2008
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Now he is so busy hunting and doctoring his 'squirms' as he calls them, that I have lots of free time to mend and darn and work.
Phyllis Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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He longed so for "squirms" that Tony got a wooden box and made little divisions and brings him in a lot of new ones almost every day.
Phyllis Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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And with the fear and trembling that all girls have the right to feel of "squirms" both Roxanne and I sat petrified while Lovelace Peyton came around the house at full gallop and drew up in front of us on the brick walk.
Phyllis Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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He squirms on his dunghill, and like a child lost in the dark among goblins, calls to the gods that he is their younger brother, a prisoner of the quick that is destined to be as free as they -- monuments of egotism reared by the epiphenomena; dreams and the dust of dreams, that vanish when the dreamer vanishes and are no more when he is not.
Chapter 37 2010
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Wretchedness squirms for alleviation, and in the public-house its pain is eased and forgetfulness is obtained.
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Bachmann is like her little sister, who just giggles, squirms and giggles again.
Think Progress » Bachmann: ‘I don’t mean any disrespect’ when I accuse the media of ‘treason.’ 2010
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As a large digital clock ticks toward showtime, the crew squirms up and down a narrow aisle.
Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' has exploded beyond its humble late-night comedy roots Dan Zak 2010
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Gibney does talk to Spitzer, though the former governor (and current talk-show host) squirms and fudges about the hookers themselves and what hubris led to his fall.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Marshall Fine 2010
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Gibney does talk to Spitzer, though the former governor (and current talk-show host) squirms and fudges about the hookers themselves and what hubris led to his fall.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Marshall Fine 2010
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