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Example sentences for "squints"

Lexicographically close words:
squill; squinch; squint; squinted; squinting; squire; squirearchy; squireen; squireens; squires
  1. Then I squints around at the other guys and say, more'n half of 'em wore the same kind of a look.

  2. The Boss he sort of side steps and squints over his shoulder at me.

  3. I hears a giggle, and squints up to see a pair that looked as if they'd just broke away from an afternoon tea.

  4. Just then I hears a gurgle, like some one's bein' choked with a chicken bone, and I squints around behind.

  5. Mr. Pepper, he squints at me good and hard, and then pushes the call button.

  6. Fortunately, no," says he, and I knew by the way he squints that he thought he was bein' mighty humorous.

  7. He squints at the burlap package, and then at the message, and all of a sudden he makes a break for the 'phone.

  8. I squints up at her I sees the reg-lar cut-up looks just bubblin' out.

  9. For five days they ran thus and McKenzie lazied the hours away--reading and basking in genial sunshine and taking three sextant squints daily to fix the schooner's position.

  10. McLean read them by sea-lore and sailorly instinct alone--the skipper combining these qualities with more scientific forecasts in squints at barometer and compass.

  11. If we tie up the fixing eye, the squinting one is certainly put into fixation, but the other squints instead, and of course it is just the same with the plan, as childish as it is antiquated, of tying on a pierced walnut shell before each eye.

  12. The boy's father also squints with the left eye, which is amblyopic to a high degree (V.

  13. I am told that even Halleck squints that way.

  14. Seward squints toward the presidency that he may complete that masterly production.

  15. As I cross the bridge, the cop squints at me.

  16. People walking have to step around him, and he squints at them.

  17. A guy stops in front of the stoop, and Cat half opens his eyes in the sun and squints at him.

  18. The rouser squints along the pens, he squints along the shoots, And gives his men the office when they miss the Boss’s boots.

  19. He squints most comically, and is a more self-contained young person than Jimmy.

  20. Mrs Widger's cousin declares loudly that she would rather lead her boy about blind (he squints excessively) than let him go to one o' they places.

  21. As the bird alternately squints and stares from the brush, note the rich warbler olive of his upperparts, the gorgeous yellow of the throat and breast, the white brow-stripe and the malar dash, offset by black and darker olive.

  22. Lord Elliot has red hair, squints with both eyes, and is so long and meagre that he looks more like an exclamation-point than a man.

  23. As I squints around I sees the egg eyed butler get shouldered into the hall rack; so I judges that Langdon must be in something of a hurry.

  24. He looks at the twins doubtful, then he squints at me, and next he looks at Miss Gertrude.

  25. The light came down the stair again, flashing out where the squints opened, with a muffled thud of feet and the faint growl of voices.

  26. It came and went, mounting higher each moment, for some one was carrying a lantern up the tower stair, the light shooting out, as it passed, through the narrow squints in the wall.

  27. Lord help the thing that's afore old Killbar's muzzle when you squints through her hind-sights.

  28. But thar's a mighty heap o' diff'rence when you squints thro' hind-sights at a girl like yon.

  29. But how, captain, if he squints yonder-away?


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