I followed them at the best imitation of the same pace that my boots permitted, and squelched through the mire of the gateway in time to see the bay horse jump a tall bank, and drop with a clatter into a road.
I once again squelched a smile, noting how death is a characteristically dismal and uncomfortable subject; we all made our way to the main floor.
The sense of urgency which had initially wrought such havoc upon me was squelched by the upcoming clinic appointments, and the week progressed without further turmoil on my behalf.
The sailor who so gallantly held the nozzle and squelched the fire was in luck.
Is a "forgotten" memory ever really lost, or a desire that is squelched and thrust out of "mind" really made inactive?
One was to show, if possible, that the men of our Revolutionary times were in favor of his popular sovereignty, and the other was to show that the Dred Scott decision had not entirely squelched out this popular sovereignty.
As the launch was blotted out in the haze we squelched past sugar-cane crops and fat pigs, past the bleak cemetery of dead soldiers on the hill, across a section of moor, till we struck a hill-road above the sea.
The Kid plucked his foot from a mud-hole, and squelchedon behind the Adjutant.
They came to marshy ground, where their shoes squelched in the mud.
And at every step the water squelched in the soft felt shoes the Chinaman was wearing.
But John Randolph of Virginia made a vigorous report against it; and although they persevered so well as to get three favorable reports for it, yet the United States Senate, with the aid of some slave States, finally squelched if for good.
The Hill was marshy and cold and gray, and as he squelched up to the main security desk, he felt a cold ooze of mud infiltrate its way into his super-bootie.
Hershie squelched in, leaving a slushy dribble on the muted industrial-grade brown carpet.
Their top-boots were full of water, which squelched out at every step, and their sunken eyes stared out of ash-grey faces with the look of sick and hunted animals.
Mud squelched beneath Peter's boots in the roadway; the dog sprang lightly from clump to clump of dried grass.
Mother would havesquelched such talk, and Daddy muddled them with long words, while Jane Anne would have looked puzzled to the point of tears.
Mother squelched her with a look, but Daddy, even if he noticed it, was not offended.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squelched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crushed; quelled; repressed; smashed; smothered; squashed; stifled; subdued; suppressed
