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Example sentences for "squinch"

Lexicographically close words:
squibs; squid; squids; squiggly; squill; squint; squinted; squinting; squints; squire
  1. He say he wush ter de Lawd he had er know'd Johnny Squinch wus dar, 'caze he nuv'r wud er bin helt up by dem night rob'rs.

  2. Johnny Squinch hoot up in de tree: 'Unch-oo, Doanchu go.

  3. Majer Peafowel say he want Tishy ter mar'y Johnny Squinch Owel, 'caze he's de bigges' lawyer on Tinker.

  4. We'll give you eight thousand dollars," said Squinch as a result of the conference.

  5. Another inspiring thought was the vision of Doc Turner and Ebenezer Squinch and Tom Fester and Andy Grout and Jim Christmas, with plenty of money to invest in a dubious enterprise.

  6. Mr. Clifford looked up at him with a very sharp glance, as both Mr. Turner and Mr. Squinch took note.

  7. And it won't do any good for us to go up to Trenton and try to get one," concluded Mr. Squinch with equal despondency.

  8. Bound to keep control himself," Mr. Squinch reported to his confreres, after having reluctantly confessed to himself that he could not take care of the proposition alone.

  9. Mr. Turner, Mr. Squinch and Mr. Fester looked at one another in turn.

  10. Doubtless," assented Lawyer Squinch after a thoughtful pause, deciding that he might, at least partially, admit that much.

  11. Turner and Fester and Squinch were in the latter's office, discussing the mystery with some trace of irritation, when the source of it walked in upon them.

  12. You are a very bright young man," Mr. Squinch complimented him, and that opinion was reflected in the faces of the others.

  13. Mr. Squinch pounded his long finger-tips together for some time while he pondered the matter.

  14. Together they went to Squinch and explained the matter, very much to that gentleman's discomfiture and even agitation.

  15. De squinch owl shiver like he wanter go ter bed; Ho my Riley!

  16. So they blinks an' winks like a passel of squinch owls, but never onbuckles in no argyooment.

  17. For some unknown purpose a squinch has been thrown over the North-East angle, of an arched arcade in the North wall of the North aisle.

  18. A squinch thrown across an arcade may be conjectured for strength were it not confuted by two buttresses on the outside.

  19. The fillets round the arches and round the rectangular windows must be compared with the fillets round the arched niches in room 32 and round the archivolts of squinch and niche at Chehâr Qapû.

  20. They have all been covered by conical domes set over the angles on squinch arches.

  21. The zone which contains the squinch oversails the wall, standing flush with the outer edge of a small cornice adorned with a dog-tooth.

  22. Above the squinch and calottes there is a band of four isolated crenellations, the same motive which appears on the archivolt over the doors of corridors 5 and 6.

  23. At the angles stood quarter-domes over unadorned squinch arches (Plate 25, Fig.

  24. It is also extremely significant that the semi-dome at Kharâneh should be carried over the angles of the walls on squinch arches.

  25. Mexicans ain't got no more need for hands than squinch owls has for hymn books.

  26. My savages follows along with me, an' each of 'em as grave as squinch owls an' tame as tabby cats.

  27. It's a worse augoory," says one, "than the hoots of a score of squinch owls.

  28. In central Italy we have the dome (elliptical in plan) of the cathedral of Pisa, and it was a favourite feature over the crossing of the churches throughout Italy, being generally carried on squinch pendentives.

  29. Thus a number of churches continue the tradition of the spherical pendentive, while in others some form of squinch or trumpet arch is found.


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