When a large piece of ice was seen in our way, or drifting near us, the word was passed along, and the ship's head turned one way and another; and sometimes the yards squared or braced up.
Instantly, all hands were turned up, the bow guns run out and loaded, the ensign and broad pennant set, the yards squared by lifts and braces, and everything got ready to make a good appearance.
Having cleared the point and got well out to sea, we squared away the yards, made more sail, and stood on, nearly before the wind, for San Pedro.
Now Kelly squared himself and took aim long and steady and then fired.
Also, simultaneously with these occupations, the children should be induced to draw, by means of this squared paper.
A very small child can be taught to use the pencil, so far as to draw a line of an eighth of an inch over the blue line, or the water-mark of the squared paper.
The top-gallant masts were housed, the ports of the gun-deck closed in, and her usually trim cordage and nicely squared yards were now set in a way that only the most shiftless of merchant skippers would tolerate.
Then as Andy squared himself and opened his arms wide she considered, and, with a toss of her head and a sparkle in her eyes, turned away.
He squared back his thin shoulders and puffed out his chest.
He squared his shoulders to meet facts; he could always do that.
Unsoftened, squared logs formed the walls, and the roof consisted of slabs and branches which, with the sifted and frozen snow, formed an impenetrable covering.
Joseph squared his shoulders, and sat down with a face indicative of the gravest attention.
It almost seemed as if he said to himself, as he squared his shoulders, "Come, no giving way to old age!
For one squared gives only an area of one, and we need and area of two, which is larger.
Now, we want to find which one of these groups, if any, contains the number you found the other day, the one which squared is two.
Boy: We know the first number in the squared ratio cannot be odd because it must be twice the value of the second number, and therefore is must be an even number, two times a whole number.
Olga bent her face down and would not see them; but I squared my shoulders and held my head aloft, fixing my eyes steadily on the three men as they approached.
Their summons called From every band and squared regiment By place or choice the worthiest: they anon With hundreds and with thousands trooping came Attended.
Up to the second of thesesquared recesses on either side there runs what seems to be a road or path, which sweeps away down the hill whereon the temple stands in a bold curve, each path closely matching the other.
The nets in this case aresquared at the ends, and seem to have been about eight or nine feet long, and less than a foot in height.
In the centre of the third story, exactly over the doorway of the second, is a squared niche.
Squared recesses in the sides of the rooms were common.
In front of the temple, but not exactly opposite its centre, may be seen the prophylaea, consisting of a squared doorway placed under a battlemented wall, between two towers also battlemented.
The old scales were oblong, squared at one end and rounded at the other, very much resembling the Egyptian.
Over yonder old Packard's men squared themselves in their saddles and made ready for grim work.
The stoop-shouldered mansquared himself a little, jerked up his head, took on a fresh air of defiance.
Grandfather," he said slowly, "suppose we take a little more time in getting squared around?
At last the yards were squared to the satisfaction of the boatswain, the ropes were hauled taut, and coiled down, and the men sent below to their dinners.
Sholto squared his shoulders, and with a little backward hitch of his elbow which meant "Wait till I come back, and I will pay you for this flouting," he strode determinedly across the green space towards his father.
He found Malise MacKim ashen-pale and drawn of countenance, his mouth open and squared with wonder.
On top of the lofty central rectangle rests, above its glistening white, a low squared cap of deepest red.
Very deliberately he squared himself to the bar and placed his foot upon the brass rail: "Give me some red liquor," he ordered.
With an effort he roused himself--squared himself there in the corral for the final battle with himself.
When the farms were squared each man drew lots for his new holding.
A man often found himself squared out of the best of his clearing, squared out of his cabin and all accommodation for his cow or horse, and squared on to a new place without any house on it at all.
His father before him had cleared the timber off the land and built the two-room log house of squared logs, with the open "gallery" between.
As he came nearer, the "Guerriere" squared away, wearing first to port and then to starboard, firing alternate broadsides and manoeuvring to avoid being raked.
Instantly he squared round throwing the torchlight on my face.
Here the beams of the roof are black oak and squared enormously, like the timbers of a mighty ship, and some of the odd, low doorways remind one of the hatchways in a vessel.
Up from their setting the Metal People lifted themselves in a thousand incredible shapes, shapes squared and globed and spiked and shifting swiftly into other thousands as incredible.
Down dropped the bristling Shapes that wrestled with the squared Towers.
The same cynical smile that had been there since the opening still played around the corners of his mouth as he squared himself in front of his opponent.
Fulkerson squared his feet in front of the bust and compared it by fleeting glances with the old man as he got stiffly up and suffered Beaton to help him on with his thin, shabby overcoat.
He didn't seem to have any use for my hand; he let me keep it, and he squared those old lips of his till his imperial stuck straight out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squared" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
