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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Verb
Home to 170,000 people, Prizren is considered the country’s cultural hub: picturesque bridges cross the eponymous river, and a warren of cobblestone paths squiggle out of the central plaza.—Naomi Tomky, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2024 The right-hand detour into VIR's inner loop comes up quickly, but the Sapphire's humongous 10-piston front brake calipers squeeze trackworthy carbon-ceramic rotors to haul this cruise missile smartly down to turn-in speed without a hint of squirm or squiggle.—Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 26 Mar. 2023
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 See all Example Sentences for squiggle
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