squiggle
/ˈskwɪɡ(ə)l/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈskwɪɡ(ə)l/
squiggle
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
squig - gle -> squiggle
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘From simple lines to curves, squiggles and intricate designs - she creates endless patterns in no time.’
- ‘I now have pages filled with meaningless strings of words, little diagrams, squiggles and waves.’
- ‘He pointed out a squiggle containing two loops drawn at the top of the page.’
- ‘I stared at the page of equations I had just finished, looking at the neat rows of numbers and seeing nothing but a blur of meaningless squiggles.’
- ‘Together, they drew lines, and squiggles, and circles, until the green crayon was exhausted.’
- ‘Opening up my textbook, I find a mass of lines, squiggles, and letters.’
- ‘The line with squiggles on it was said to represent the laying of carpet.’
- ‘When a bat swoops overhead, Miller's laptop beeps and clicks, and corresponding lines and squiggles appear on the screen.’
- ‘He always takes a torch pen along so he can see what he is writing - he learned very early that taking notes in the dark left a meaningless squiggle.’
- ‘The squeeze bottles quickly form squiggles, dots, and spirals on almost every dish, and they're even used for tasks like dressing salads that do not require their precision.’
- ‘She makes a series of squiggles - and when she's done I see that each is a circle with a perpendicular line.’
- ‘Alternately, if you doubt your ability to draw, ask someone who can draw to do it for you, with you sitting there explaining what all of those strange lines and squiggles mean.’
- ‘Using the glass paints, make squiggles, dots or lines on the surface of the bottles.’
- ‘In about 30 seconds, cartoonist Rahnu can turn a spiral into a snail, a scribble into a bunny and a squiggle into a bird.’
- ‘He tried to make out the name on the signature line, but all he got was an ‘M’ followed by a squiggle, and an ‘O’ followed by a longer squiggle with a big bump near the beginning.’
- ‘The powder came to my boot tops, and we never seemed to come close to our previous tracks, leaving long, gorgeous snow squiggles that stretched for miles.’
- ‘Most of the scratchy lines and squiggles visible here are the green patina of oxidized bronze, not a part of the original coin as cast.’
- ‘We had spent the last hour and a half trying to program our computer to make pretty patterns but all we got was a line, a squiggle and crashing computers.’
- ‘Those funny dots, lines, and squiggles help writers point the way.’
- ‘Then, using a straw, get your child to blow the paint into funny lines and squiggles so all the colours mix and overlap.’
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