I wanted to squirm, but I held still.
It's hard to tell which end is which when you squirm around so.
Mr Chavez may squirm, but his cash is funding a World Bank-designed update of the land registry.
But instruments can cut both ways. Lakshmi Iyer of Harvard has used the technique to reveal some unhappy consequences of the Raj that might have made Mr singh's Oxford audience squirm.
I would inwardly squirm at the unwanted attention.
They had to squirm through the mud to reach their destination.
Making bankers squirm today is part of the summary justice needed to beat pay down from those extremes.
Small animals that have been living for a winter pour out their nests and caterpillars squirm on the soft ground, wondering where they are going?
Mentioning religion is a sure way to make him squirm.
When they are seated, they tend to squirm, fidget, or bounce.
It makes me crazy when my wife, Kristin, drives our car, because she brakes at all the yellow caution lights, while I squirm impatiently in the passenger seat.
Someone grabbed him but he managed to squirm free.
While a rare interviewer may ask these questions simply to watch you squirm, many wild-card questions serve a purpose.
To writhe or squirm, as in pain.
If these kids don't have to struggle and squirm in front of the Cowell firing squad, what separates them from the millions of wannabe singers on YouTube?
Right now, serious programmer-type readers are beginning to squirm in their seats.
You'll never squirm out of the charge this time.
Toss a piece of leaf onto a spiderweb. The spider is indifferent. Because leaves don't squirm like captured flies.
To cause to twist or squirm; contort.
He was severely crippled and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare. I would inwardly squirm at the shy and unwanted attention.
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