SQUAT in a Sentence
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54 example sentences for SQUAT, such as:
1. The old man squatted by the fire.
2. When we saw them we squatted down behind a wall.
3. You can't simply wander around squatting on other people's property.
4. Madame Antoine seated her fat body, broad and squat, upon a bench beside the door.
5. It was a big ragged white man and a squat black negro with shoulders and chest like a gorilla.
2. When we saw them we squatted down behind a wall.
3. You can't simply wander around squatting on other people's property.
4. Madame Antoine seated her fat body, broad and squat, upon a bench beside the door.
5. It was a big ragged white man and a squat black negro with shoulders and chest like a gorilla.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SQUAT
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squat
a. stocky; short and thick; low and broad
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1 Why, you liar, I saw you with my own eyes sidle round the corner of the porch and squat in the cape jessamine bush by the wall.
2 He had contented himself with putting a flat roof on the remaining first floor which gave the building the squat, disproportionate look of a child's playhouse built of shoe boxes.
3 It was a big ragged white man and a squat black negro with shoulders and chest like a gorilla.
4 "You'd rather have rum than claret, I suppose," said Rhett, reaching into the cellaret and producing a squat bottle.
5 She hid the sacred family phonograph in the dining-room, and replaced its stand with a square cabinet on which was a squat blue jar between yellow candles.
6 They were sitting on the squat yellow satin settee in the boarding-house parlor.
7 Dr. Calibree was a squat, clean-shaven, conscientious-looking man of forty.
8 It was not well drawn; it was too finicking; the pillars in the background were grotesquely squat.
9 Madame Antoine seated her fat body, broad and squat, upon a bench beside the door.
10 "Tommy" Hinds, as he was known to his intimates, was a squat little man, with broad shoulders and a florid face, decorated with gray side whiskers.
11 When he had finished, the blue-clothed men scattered into small arguing groups between the rows of squat brown huts.
12 In an instant his strange headgear began to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
13 I caught one glimpse of his short, squat, strongly built figure as he sprang to his feet and turned to run.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
14 At one side of this was a squat, brass-bound wooden box, the lid of which was hinged upwards, with this curious old-fashioned key projecting from the lock.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
15 With difficulty he limped up to the door, where a squat, dark, elderly man was smoking a black clay pipe.
Example Sentence:
1 The man with the bottle was an Ossetian, like Stalin - squat and dark, with the same sort of brows, mustache and beetle eyes.
2 You can't simply wander around squatting on other people's property.
3 When we saw them we squatted down behind a wall.
4 The old man squatted by the fire.