How to Use squiggle in a Sentence

squiggle

noun
Definition of squigglenext
Synonyms for squigglenext
  • The rest of the hair formed a squiggle on the side of her head.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The detail comes in the form of the squiggle that’s inspired by the spiral on a Greek column.
    — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • They are served cold in a 16-ounce pouch with a yellow squiggle straw.
    — Courtney Wilson, Chron, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Windham drew a Charlie Brown-style squiggle face to her own note and added it to the board.
    — al, 2 Aug. 2021
  • And the length of that squiggle or the outline and shape of a body symbolize gender.
    — Mary Widdicks, Quartz, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The process starts with the longline being baited and draped out in tight squiggle across the waters of the Bering Sea.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 25 June 2019
  • Its inky black squiggles reappear on the white chairs, linking the two in a netherworld.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
  • The dry-erase board down front had dissolved into a blur of colors and squiggles.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Sarah Gish The batter is light and crisp — not overcooked — and the salty rings beg for a sweet squiggle of ketchup from the red squirt bottle on the table.
    — Sarah Gish, kansascity, 21 June 2018
  • The concert room has splashy neon colors on the walls, a vibrant zig-zag floor pattern and alien-like squiggles on the walls.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • On the counter are jars of sprinkles and cakes frosted in hombre green or pink with ornate squiggles at the base.
    — Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • This graph shows 2023 in the solid black line, and previous years as the other squiggles.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2023
  • There may not have been any squiggle brows in sight, but decades past sure didn't disappoint.
    — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 25 Feb. 2018
  • The flavors are each made with a unique recipe, served in a brightly colored rainbow of squiggles.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
  • There are also painterly squiggles on and around the imagery.
    — Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 6 July 2018
  • This stainless steel tool has a worm-like squiggle at the bottom that allows you to twist it like a corkscrew to mix and aerate your pile.
    — Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Shives sat me down in front of a screen full of multi-coloured squiggles and numbers, with a small black-and-white video of me sleeping in the corner.
    — Neil Steinberg, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2019
  • From a 60-mph roll, mash the gas and the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S rubber squiggle from excitement.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 26 July 2022
  • In that case, manually disable the system and bring on the squiggles.
    — Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2017
  • Nigeria With bright green and black chevron-like squiggles, Nigeria’s home kit is certainly one that sticks out for the World Cup.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • With a crayon and on the back of an envelope, a few circles, two triangles, and a squiggle make an oink-oink.
    — Jen Gann, The Cut, 10 Jan. 2018
  • No one is born with neural circuits for connecting the sounds of speech to squiggles on paper.
    — Sarah Carr, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023
  • From 200 feet up, the playgrounds morph into abstraction, their shapes and squiggles straight out of a Joan Miró painting.
    — Laura Mallonee, Wired, 10 May 2020
  • Some, like the Boston Cream, are getting a ghoulish update thanks to a squiggle of orange icing.
    — Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Kiffin is a squiggle of crayon in a world of regimented lines.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The western edge is a squiggle running slightly north-northwest to south-southeast.
    — al, 2 Jan. 2022
  • These hatch into larvae that tunnel within the foliage to produce the paths or squiggles.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The growth curve for her Vibrio cultures, however, didn’t show the usual smoothly rising line but rather a bumpy squiggle like the track of a roller coaster.
    — Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
  • At first glance, Pikaia might seem like little more than a prehistoric squiggle.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
  • There are only so many of those charts that start with enormous E’s which shrink and retreat down to an indecipherable mass of squiggles.
    — Hazlitt, 18 Oct. 2023

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