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Example sentences for "squats"

Lexicographically close words:
squashes; squashing; squashy; squat; squatarola; squatted; squatter; squatters; squatting; squatty
  1. This is still dearer; for it is made of porcelain, and very nicely coloured The wrestler squats upon his hams.

  2. Here on a street corner squats a blue-robed boy behind a low wooden table, selling wooden boxes about as big as match-boxes, with red paper hinges.

  3. The matron (a Red Pelican woman) squats in easy reach of her few and squalid possessions; on her left, i.

  4. The very Jews are there: A Gypsy-troop, though bound with horses for the Fair, Squats with the rest.

  5. The blacksmith squats at his anvil wielding a hammer such as no western smith could use without long practice.

  6. He does not sit down in the presence of old people, drawing his legs under him, which would be a gross familiarity, but he squats on his knees, supporting himself with his heels in the ground.

  7. In this hole, or melebda, the hunter squats down, and when the lion approaches the body, he takes a careful aim and fires.

  8. The leveret stops and squats down, when the falcon swoops and kills it with a blow of her talons.

  9. I have frequently started them from their squats in bleak, wind-swept fields, when the little brown things were completely snowed under.

  10. Occasionally a rabbit will have two or three squats located over his range, each one so placed that a wide view on every side may be had.

  11. Near her squats her little daughter, a pretty child of six; an adopted daughter plays near the fire with a small, thick-bellied orphan boy, who is always crying.

  12. He approaches with his stone in a wooden fork, and squats down near the bowl lost in thought, as if anxious not to miss the right moment; then he drops the stone into the milk, which hisses, bubbles and steams.

  13. When everyone has finished, Agelan lies down for a siesta, while his wife lights a pipe and squats in silent happiness near the fire.

  14. Almost immediately a young Hindoo woman enters, squats down on the earthen floor at the end of the bench which forms the only furniture of the shop, and turns upon me a pair of the finest black eyes I have ever seen,--like the eyes of a fawn.

  15. The young fellow squats down before her, as before a wood fire, stretches out his hands, and says in an ingratiating voice: "What a fine place is our cantonal town!

  16. And how fine the figure looks now, as it squats there like a merchant's buxom, comely dame!

  17. The master squats on the floor at one side of the room, or stands among some of his pupils who are seated in rows or promiscuously through the rest of the apartment.

  18. The lioness does not think this strange, for she squats and blinks lazily in the light like an over-fed yellow mastiff.

  19. A waste paper basket squats between Mr. Greeley's legs, but one half the torn envelopes and boshy communications flutter to the floor instead of being tossed into the basket.

  20. At one side of the queer instrument sits a woman with a babe at her breast, on the other side sits a little boy, and a second boy squats on the ground in front.

  21. The pen is the reed used in the East, but without any nib, and the inkstand is the sharp end of a cow's horn, which is stuck into the ground as the writer squats to his task.

  22. The wild Galla squats beside the produce of his flocks, and the Moslem trader from the interior displays ostrich feathers, or some other article of curiosity from the distant tribe.

  23. With well-acted unconsciousness, and eyes carefully turned in any direction but towards the spot where the paauw squats in the grass, you ride round and round him in an ever-lessening circle, until you get within range.

  24. Thinking therefore that he has made a grand discovery, he rubs his hands with no little satisfaction, squats down at the foot of some tree, or in the temporary shed on the bank, and believes he is going to kill a dozen wolves at least.

  25. In this, one end resting on the ground, the other raised on a low log of wood, the Mayan squats and sponges the water over himself with a bunch of henequen or other fibre.

  26. Under the deep shade of a hacienda portico a withered Indian woman squats Turk-fashion before baskets of luscious oranges.

  27. The Government allots him land, or if it does not he squats on private land: bringing with him his own peculiar and barbarous customs.

  28. Overlapping the borders of his location, he squats on private lands, he advances like a great tidal wave, he cries aloud for room, more room.

  29. He squats on the ground with his knees up and his arms folded across them.

  30. Lynch squats crosslegged on the hearthrug of matted hair, his cap back to the front.

  31. The Brahman shop-keeper squats contentedly among his wares, passing the hours in dreamy meditation and in consoling pipes of goodakoo.

  32. He is the most persistent "gazer" I have yet met in Asia; hour after hour he squats on his hams at my feet and stares intently into my face, as though trying hard to read my inmost thoughts.

  33. A thick, striped mattress makes a soft platform on the elephant's broad back, and here the young voluptuary squats as naturally as on the floor of his room.

  34. He then squats down and watches it bleed about a half-pint, occasionally working the elbow-joint to stimulate the flow.

  35. During the interview he squats down on the threshold of the little bungalow, and concentrates his curiosity and suspicion into a protracted penetrating stare, focused steadily at my devoted countenance.

  36. A neatly dressed attendant squats himself down on the shady side of the tent outside, and at ridiculously short intervals brings me in a newly primed kalian and a samovar of tea.

  37. Presently he advances closer, gives me a handful of figs, squats down closer to the bicycle, and commences a searching investigation of its several parts.

  38. Having meted our this summary interpretation of Afghan petty justice, Kiftan Sahib resumes his blanket, and the old sowar comes and squats alongside my own rude couch, and endeavors to heal his wounded spirit by muttering appeals to Allah.

  39. The native who wraps himself up in thick wadded clothes and squats on the floor has no difficulty in keeping himself warm with the aid of this arrangement, over which he holds the tips of his fingers.

  40. To protect himself against draughts he has a screen standing behind him, and squats on a warm cushion stuffed with silk wool.

  41. It is his stamping-ground when his blood is up, and the devil squats at his ears.

  42. No 'daemon' squats at my ear, and I claim no mantic illumination, still I should be glad to know you will make that visit at once.

  43. He simply piles his goods round his shop and squats in the midst of them.

  44. When a boy goes to the house of a friend he squats on his heels.

  45. He is a short, dark man, and he squats down to do his work.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.