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Example sentences for "squelch"

Lexicographically close words:
squeeze; squeezed; squeezer; squeezes; squeezing; squelched; squelching; squelette; squib; squibs
  1. His voice died away as the two officers departed on their three-mile squelch to the front line, and the unshaven Jones gazed after them admiringly.

  2. We must get him forward, she said, so that he might squelch the mutiny before it began.

  3. If I sang out and informed the watch, the afterguard would reach me and squelch my voice long before my mates could lay aft.

  4. True to character, I tried my best to squelch any roars of hilarity and enjoyed the entire affair silently in the confines of my corner.

  5. Ticklish and quite unused to being touched, his various pokes evoked embarrassing jolts of muscle spasms as I tried, without success, to squelch my chuckles.

  6. A lady who could squelch a Ford might be able to squelch a supposed half-niece.

  7. If the people of this country knew what crimes are constantly committed by these courts of injustice, they would squelch them, without mercy, as unceremoniously as they would squelch so many gangs of bandits or pirates.

  8. Or why I'm not lying in a muddy road as a bit of soft squelch for staff cars to bump over.

  9. Then there was no other sound where I stood but the scrunching of wheels of gun limbers and transport wagons, the squelch of mud in which horses and mules trudged, and the hard breathing of tired men marching by under their packs.

  10. When Pheelip of Spain sent his Duke of Alva to squelch those Dutchmen they joost squelched him like a rotten egg--aye, they did.

  11. I sat up until midnight with the editor of the Mercury, helping him to squelch the rumor and the next morning expose the falsity of the news in his columns.

  12. How do you squelch a takeover program that's not even against the law?

  13. He did not squelch us, being as good as his word; the undeveloped coal fields developed amazingly and the result was that before the year was over, I had sold the little road at my own price to the big one.

  14. Squelch has not a chance; and you shall take your seat formally, so as to be ready for the great fight in the Spring.

  15. The old man squealed, and we had to squelch him.

  16. The old man squealed and we had to squelch him!

  17. The thing must be squelched, and the only way to squelch it, when they fired they must fire to kill.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squelch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    answer; buzz; censor; choke; confound; confute; contradict; contradiction; controvert; cork; crush; damp; defeat; demolish; demolition; denial; deny; dismiss; drown; effervesce; effervescence; extinguish; finish; fizz; fizzle; floor; gag; hiss; hissing; hush; kill; lisp; muffle; muzzle; overthrow; overturn; overwhelm; parry; place; quash; quell; quench; quiet; rebut; rebuttal; refutation; refute; repress; settle; silence; sizzle; sizzling; smash; smother; sneeze; sniff; sniffle; snore; snort; snuff; snuffle; spit; splutter; sputter; squash; squelch; stamp; stanch; stifle; still; strangle; stultify; subdue; subversion; subvert; suffocate; suppress; swish; throttle; traverse; undermine; undermining; upset; wheeze; whistle; whistling; whiz