Synonyms
Examples of squiggle in a Sentence
Verb
a pediatrician's waiting room full of squiggling toddlers
there are some illegible notes squiggled in the margins of the old book
Noun
His handwriting looks like a bunch of squiggles.
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Jessica Leigh Hester, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
Grooves in the hillside squiggle down toward a pasture and bike path at its base.
—Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024
Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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Verb
Vienna’s Danube, Munich’s Isar, and many rivers squiggling across the U.K. and France all have a long history of hosting swimmers.
—Jessica Leigh Hester, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
Grooves in the hillside squiggle down toward a pasture and bike path at its base.
—Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
Noun
The markings look like a cross with a series of squiggles above it.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024
Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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“Squiggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squiggle. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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