How To Use Squelch In A Sentence

The security police quickly squelched an extremely rare public demonstration demanding political reform on Monday, the 41st anniversary of the Baath Party's seizure of power here.
On the other hand, if events adduce to the furtherance of law, independence, freedom, then he spares no effort to squelch it. Never let an oil leak go to waste? | RedState
Barring miracle remission on a continental scale, only aggressive, coordinated medical relief, public health programs and public information campaigns squelch epidemics.
He got out of the car and squelched through the mud to open the gate.
The truth is that communism cannot exist without force because it depends so heavily upon squelching individual human ambition and making it subservient to the community.

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He does a good job of glueing the whole together with big, churchy organ chords and squelchy analogue synths.
Whereas Congo Square rocked and infused soul into the sweaty bodies that came every Sunday afternoon, Jackson Square squelched the human spirit and sometimes took away the life of our ancestral people. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
He pulled his foot out of the mud with a squelch.
Together, they soared over the fence, and landed with a muddy squelch onto the ground.
Now I'm talking about it so much it sounds like my life is a constant stream of noxious gases, like I walk around all day pumping, rasping and squelching.
Retinoic acid, tamoxifen, and the two telomerase inhibitors each significantly squelched immortalization. The Scientist
Worries about Greek's debt crisis have roiled the oil market for months because of fears that it could rend apart the euro zone, thus damaging the broader global economy, curbing demand for crude oil and squelching investors' appetite for such risky assets as commodities. Crude Rises on Greek Plan
Their definition of feminism paralleled definitions provided by feminists, who argued that women's rights and personal development were often squelched because of family responsibilities.
Her wet shoes squelched at every step.
In the 1980s, a series of Rottweiler attacks squelched that breed's popularity, after what had been a meteoric rise.
Disco beats and falsetto vocals nestled up to squelchy parps and ghost noises, and all to an accompaniment of flashing light-sabres.
Their singular talents die indecorous deaths; their individuality is silently squelched under the rigid and coercive iron heel of authority.
The neutron bomb was not only squelched, but all development stopped as a matter of policy because it was even worse than low-yield nuclear warheads in eroding the nuclear firebreak.
While such bosses may give lip service to good management, their fundamental insecurity squelches the development of their employees and is ultimately demoralizing and bad for business.
‘This is probably the only time I'll ever come here,’ she says firmly, as she squelches up to the field called Lost Vagueness, where Druid lovers and insomniac wasters hang out till dawn.
At 4.30 pm, when the referee squelched across the sodden turf, the odds seemed to be on the match being postponed because of the underfoot conditions.
He got out of the car and squelched through the mud to open the gate.
It is reported that the governmental troops have successfully squelched an armed coup.
A Ste Anne-area man convicted of arson last spring had his bid to overturn the ruling squelched in Manitoba's highest court last Wednesday.
As a writer, perhaps equally so: Nigella routinely rejects words like braise and simmer in favor of much juicier language: blitz and squelch and my personal favorite, splodge.
The government's strong-arm tactics may squelch protests, but they don't extinguish yearnings for freedom.
Griffith had abandoned his own horse and was in the midst of walking towards him, his expression one of careful curiosity tinged with concern, his tall black boots spotted with muck as long grass squelched under his feet.
Though he couldn't speak through the handset, he was keying it so that it would break squelch in Morse, sending an SOS. MINUTES TO BURN
It's hard to squelch my butchness, but, bless my soul, I do try!
Willie ran up the pathway towards the cottage, through the graves and under the oak tree, his shoes squelching.
They'll have fun as they mould, poke, squelch, knead, model and make.
Shelley ordered the edition to be "squelched," but nearly a hundred copies had already been issued; and this fact, so maddening to the poet, may yet rejoice the collector of rare books. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
I've seen this utility, shown in-game as "squelch" and in-forum as "ignore". Datamining the Forums
The sound of a single sliding footstep squelching through the thick mud alerted him.
Among other reasons, I'd be too afraid that people will get lulled into apathy again if reports about possible terrorist attempts get squelched.
For a moment she's blindly confused as to who to hit, then she lashes out with the heel of her foot, and there's a sickening squelch from the NCB coal sack between them.
She pulled at her wet trousers and they sprang back to her thigh with a squelch. THE MANANA MAN
States could also exploit the threat from the living dead to acquire new territory, squelch irredentist movements, settle old scores, or subdue enduring rivals.
All were homozygous for the mutation that squelches gene activity. The Scientist
I felt a squelch of nerves before the read-through and wondered if everything I'd written was a bit rubbish but, as it turned out, it's not.
He got out of the car and squelched through the mud to open the gate.
Tadpoles of the squelching froglet are usually found in the shallows of permanent and temporary water.
Not only are oysters reportedly aphrodisiacal - Casanova famously feasted on them every day - they are a sensuous, zinc-rich texture food full of squelchy, salty juiciness.
Actually, for most of the time the path was sound, except for spring-fed squelches.
A disgusting squelch echoed around the concrete enclosure as a plastic bag split open, revealing beneath the rotting fruit, an identical device.
If a president fires a US Attorney because the attorney is pursuing a corruption case that the president wants to squelch, that is an improper reason, be it political or not. About that U.S. Attorneys matter.
Her wellingtons squelched water and her jeans were soaked, but she was hardly aware of anything. GRACE
She then proceeded to pluck Lucky from the puddle of mud (she made a loud squelch and left a perfect Kellogg's-like imprint) and carry her into the barn.
As the opposite sides in the mayoral race draw their lines and gear up for the all-island slugfest, the detritus of local obsolete municipal councils are getting themselves ready to make their now-squelched voices heard.
Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly squelched by the threat of a lunacy commission. Goliah
I am not sure if the book got banned because I tackle sensitive issues in depth-like food safety, local corruption that protects the sex industry, and a weak education sector that squelches innovation and analytical ability-or if the title scared the regulators, or something else. Forbes.com: News
The President wants to squelch any perception that the meeting is an attempt to negotiate.
It was eerily quiet on this most famous hillside last Saturday afternoon, with just myself and a small party of Dutch tourists squelching round the battle field in the unexpected sunshine.
Richard and Dawkins tried to protest, but one look from the commander squelched their arguments.
Walter Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly squelched by the threat of a lunacy commission. Goliah
A deep, squelching beat suffused with vibes and marimba stutters behind her, balancing the simple innocence of her words with skin-prickling menace.
He grimaced as his feet sank into the muck with an audible squelch.
The horses' hooves squelched in the muck of the roadway as they crossed to the south end where a faint light glimmered past the edge of the last house.
My hair was dripping and my shoes squelched as I walked.
Oh, apart from the extra squelch factor that slugs seem to have - their innards seem to be almost luminous and spread a lot further than the average snail.
And then, trainers still squelching, it was time for everyone to disperse.
Pop", "boom" and "squelch" are onomatopoeic words.
Insulated cast iron plumbing - instead of PVC - provides greater sound control, and because everyone wants wood floors these days, he specs a cork underlayment to squelch footsteps.
Johnny, however, knowing how Jelly couldn't keep a secret, just gave him a look that squelched any further protests.
White-water canoeing has never been so thrillingly - or so squelchily - evoked. Times, Sunday Times
Close your eyes to that garlic bread literally squelching in butter!
It is reported that the governmental troops have successfully squelched an armed coup.
Close your eyes to that garlic bread literally squelching in butter!
A soft squelch from the other side of the tree caught his attention, he peered round.
The valley is a squelchy mudbath and if it wasn't for central heating we'd be wearing wet clothes the whole time.
But the BCFL and the social-democratic NDP have squelched even a protest campaign against the government.
Lodder opts for some slightly cheesy synth patches on occasion, but he does a good job of glueing the whole together with big, churchy organ chords and squelchy analogue synths.
A technique is used by a squelch circuit that generates a fast squelch.
The concrete under foot was cold and unpleasantly damp, with intermittent soft squelches and sharp jabs.
a squelched rumor
As I emerged from the forest, all I could hear in the stillness was the constant squelch of my tyres churning through mud and the lazy hum of a plane which I assumed had just set free from one of the gliders that fly off Sutton Bank.
Such possibilities, combined with a poor climate for agriculture, squelched widespread agricultural development.
Pop", "boom" and "squelch" are onomatopoeic words.
Our lauded racial tolerance may have squelched overtly racist jokes but it often seems like a lot of different kinds of people living side-by-side, mostly peacefully, but not really together.
First though a dip across today's valley, from the moor, down through birch, the squelch of boggy bits, a first crossing of Ladhill Beck and then up through bilberries and a rock field.
After spending just three minutes squelching along the shore amid fallen branches and mighty oaks felled by the weekend's storms, they climbed back on their minibus to drive to Bayliff Wood.
It is reported that the governmental troops have successfully squelched an armed coup.
He got out of the car and squelched through the mud to open the gate.
Rumours of him communicating in bleeps, bloops and squelches are greatly exaggerated.
To oppose them would limit or squelch the possibilities they represent.
Douglas ever talked of going to Virginia to "squelch" out that idea there. Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings
As a child, we had them for particularly rainy days walking to school when, because of their nature, we could splash in puddles with impunity and squelch our way through mucky grass verges.
A second motor initiation, which depresses a plunger in a manner similar to a syringe, combines the cell culture mixture with a fixative reagent, which squelches further biological reaction.
The only sounds were of owls shrieking and the squelch of their feet. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Today we have a bog, a long squelching sodden mire.
Willie ran up the pathway towards the cottage, through the graves and under the oak tree, his shoes squelching.
Her creativity had been squelched.
He pulled his foot out of the mud with a squelch.
He didn't care for her engagements, her campaigns, or all the expectancy of her friends; to "squelch" all that, at a stroke, was the dearest wish of his heart. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
I have tested these radios and they break the preset squelch at a distance of about 2 miles, broadcasting an estimated 500 mw at roughly 440 MHz.
But the fact that the guy is wearing a Comedy Central shirt tends to squelch the impact.
He could hear their heavy footfalls, the squelch of rotten meat pushed beyond even its magically supported limits. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
The US military often uses the tactic of gunboat diplomacy to squelch acts of terrorism.
Then I flung my body suddenly backward against the squelching quag, and, grabbing wildly behind my head, laid hold of her fetlock. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
If the debate here were "squelched", then all opinions that were counter to the one would be removed. BlueOregon
Her toes squelched against the damp sand, leaving a snaky trail of footprints.
The fact that there's so much diversity in representation squelches the anxieties people will very likely have around how she's representing brothers.
We were ready to remove the old squelch module when we quickly noticed that the top of the screw head was stripped.
However, there is also countervailing evidence to indicate that when concentration is extreme, innovation is squelched.
He blames Post-Modern architects for repopularizing traditional styles and squelching the public's tolerance for Modern architecture.
‘Central planning’ would squelch individual freedom and squander public resources, they claimed.
Troops are being sent there, and furloughed men are ordered there to "squelch" the affair. Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864,
It involves squelching about on the river bed at the low-water mark, hammering stakes and stowers of coppiced hazel into the mud, to be woven with branches to withstand three tides.
a chance to be in New York and meet Seward he would have 'squelched' it there also, it never occurred to him to breathe a word against Pryor. My day : reminiscences of a long life,
The operator crawled from the overturned cab and systems squelched the fire, so I ran past, through where the blue goo pushed and flowed against the median, and I searched for the torso. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Seward he would have "squelched" it there also, it never occurred to him to breathe a word against Pryor. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862
Receivers use squelch detect circuits to recognize this condition, or the absence of this condition.
The Dilbert Deception yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Dilbert Deception'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Did Scott Adams, Dilbert\'s creator, help W "squelch" a "bad idea" with humor?' The Dilbert Deception
With live bass and drums, synths and samples Tokyo specialise in squelchy electronica with a dark urban edge.
City striker Colin Alcide and Brighton goalkeeper Mark Walton squelch to the rain-sodden turf at Bootham Crescent.
Public schools, public transportation, and public health - these are to be squelched for a large refund to the rich and a marginal check to the middle-class.
Though he couldn't speak through the handset, he was keying it so that it would break squelch in Morse, sending an SOS. MINUTES TO BURN
He got out of the car and squelched through the mud to open the gate.
You can even double your vegetable intake by mixing some shredded zucchini or carrots into the sauce (the sugar in the marinara will squelch any bitter taste).
And, it's probably an old poet's fancy, but I swear as I was walking about in Williton today I could almost feel the pavement squelching underfoot, as if the water has crept up and is laying directly underneath.
In the Southwestern Australian scrubland, a host of strange - sounding animals could face extinction, including numbats and the squelching froglet.
He could hear their heavy footfalls, the squelch of rotten meat pushed beyond even its magically supported limits. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
The thud of the wound, the squelch of the intrusion of iron into flesh was punctuated with the gasp of the Vikings.
Even more critically, he has an acute sense of how the rigors of instrumental training can actually squelch innate musical creativity.
Most days I remember to weave the pushchair and us along, narrowly avoiding the squelch factor.
I calmed down, breathing deeply and squelching my toes in the nubbly carpeting.
I stuck a fork in it and pulled it out of its shell with a squelchy noise.
We, the lurking mass of mums, immediately went into ‘dearie me/never mind/accidents happen’ mode, but as soon as the poor kid had squelched off home, the titters began.
When a symptom or condition is successfully squelched, the bioenergetic source of the original disturbance simply seeks the next best avenue of expression. Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution? (Part II)
So you long to fulfill yourself through sexual attraction to others and, in doing so, add complex dimension to your marriage in a way that humanity-squelching, emotionally parsimonious Americans dare not?
Nothing squelches arousal like the terrible feeling you get from lying to someone you love.
The coming debate will be over whether the solution is to create a more sweeping form of public school choice or to revive private school vouchers to create the alternative the public system has so far squelched.
Poorly drafted legislation purports to squelch the threat of invasive species, but does little more than create massive bureaucratic headaches, ignore primary invasive threats (plants, feral domestic animals) for sensationalized "exotics," and lay waste to the herpetoculture, aquaria, and aviculture trades without rational justification. Say No to H.R. 669
Any RF that falls within a receiver's passband that's hot enough can open squelch and pass noise.
I stopped to watch it and smiled like a maniac and felt my heart grow bigger and squelch open and leak strawberry serotonin smoothie all over my lungs and ribs and out through my nostrils and navel and onto my toes.
Samit Basu at 09: 05 on 13 June who is stirring stormclouds rowdy? who meets angels and says howdy? who makes squiffy skuas squelch? Archive 2009-06-01
He triggered the only real chance of the first half, banging a quick-fire corner to the back post, where Kirk Broadfoot barrelled in to bullet a header that squelched enticingly across the six-yard box.
The only sounds were of owls shrieking and the squelch of their feet. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Torrential rain put a damper on the event, sending bedraggled guests squelching across lawns to seek shelter.
As the hikers walked down the path by the house, she could hear the squelch of their boots in the mud.
Helen, deeming him overbold, sought to 'squelch' him with a look. The Desert Valley
They argue that we can squelch popular support for protectionism by making the tax code more progressive: The best way to avert the rise in protectionism is by instituting a New Deal for globalization -- one that links engagement with the world economy to a substantial redistribution of income. Does Scheve and Slaughter's "New Deal" Pass the Sniff Test?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
During the morning brief, the shop's supervisor announced that the new squelch module for the receiver had arrived and asked for volunteers to do the replacement.
But Gardenhire said his desire to call up reinforcements was "squelched" by the front office. Minneapolis/St. Paul Breaking News, Weather, Video, Traffic and Sports for Minnesota from WCCO-TV
Here, even though we've had more rain than is normal for a wet April, and some fields lay sodden and squelching, we seem to have escaped lightly.
We squelched across the muddy field.
At 4.30 pm, when the referee squelched across the sodden turf, the odds seemed to be on the match being postponed because of the underfoot conditions.
As I squelched across the living room carpet, examining the multitude of shades and stains it now possessed and marvelling at a pint glass full to the brim with ash and fag ends, something struck me.
The Southern nullifiers, who had been "squelched" by General Jackson, began to revive under the more genial rule of Mr. Van Buren, and they established an "organ" called the Washington _Chronicle_. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
Rain sheets down, fog descends, soldiers' boots squelch through mud on an endless, agonising climb.
In the Southwestern Australian scrubland, a host of strange - sounding animals could face extinction, including numbats and the squelching froglet.
The squelching of the institute - later partly re-funded and renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory - marked the start of Reagan's campaign against solar power.
Allegedly Hot City's bass squelches and ravey Latin stabs are an antidote to "dubstep po-facery", and operate at the nexus of big-room house and UK funky. This week's new singles
In this ecoregion, a number of restricted range and endemic frogs occur, including squelching froglet (Crinia subinsignifera) and yellow wart burrowing frog (Heleioporus barycragus). Southwest Australia woodlands
So you long to fulfill yourself through sexual attraction to others and, in doing so, add complex dimension to your marriage in a way that humanity-squelching, emotionally parsimonious Americans dare not?
Just as post-bellum white southerners feared a black cultural revolution and thus acted in horrific, dehumanizing ways to squelch any inkling of Afro-cultural insurgency," he writes, "the cultural majority today fears specifically a Latino-cultural revolution which will rob them of their power to set the 'norm.' The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Moving Immigration Reform Forward
Rather than draw upon words to squelch the unknown and to eliminate mystery, we can use them to bring forth more unknowing. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
She pulled at her wet trousers and they sprang back to her thigh with a squelch. THE MANANA MAN
If you adjust the squelch from the media and put the nomination in the context of the world wide response upon winning the election ... the nomination makes perfect sense. Super Obamario Wins The Nobel Peace Prize! » E-Mail
squelch any sign of dissent
Unable to restrain himself, he crashes the do, squelches in and approaches (her).
The senator thoroughly squelched the journalist who tried to interrupt him during his speech.
Dew soaked grass and rain sodden leaves stubbornly refuse to give up their moisture, allowing the walker to squelch his way across the murky landscape.
The monsoon freshness in the middle of summer, the squelch of rain on grass blades whispering, blue sky shimmering through the foliage, the autumn sun beating down on the grass, the cleansing cool breeze of an unspoilt forest.
As I continued east at more than 600 knots, the ELT beacon became strong enough to break through the squelch setting of my radio.
Poorly drafted legislation purports to squelch the threat of invasive species, but does little more than create massive bureaucratic headaches, ignore primary invasive threats (plants, feral domestic animals) for sensationalized "exotics," and lay waste to the herpetoculture, aquaria, and aviculture trades without rational justification. Say No to H.R. 669
The senator thoroughly squelched the journalist who tried to interrupt him during his speech.
When Anwar's supporters tried to stage a demonstration in Kuala Lumpur on April 15, the police picked up key leaders beforehand and flooded the capital with enough officers to successfully squelch the protest.
Probiotic bacteria in fermented and unfermented dairy products can improve lactose digestion and squelch symptoms of intolerance.
It's not until she's in the empty car park that she hears her own footsteps squelching on the wet surface and realises there's another set of sounds behind her.
She squelched back to the car sobbing unrestrainedly, dried and changed out of her wet clothes wailing and cursing.
The week's inside-dopester news having focused on accusations that Obama had changed his views on withdrawal from Iraq, Stephanopoulos, not one to give the conventional wisdom a rest, led by saying that Obama "struggles to squelch any suggestion that he's shifting on the war. Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 7-6-08
It was either leave the boat in the dunes and make the long walk of shame back to Gloucester, squelching along in my reef socks, or get back in and claw away with my hamburgered hooks, like old Howard B. himself.
However all was not well amongst Indians and Gandhi sought to squelch the charge that his was ‘a movement not for Swaraj but Hindu Raj and against Musalamans’.
That led to a tendency for heckler’s veto, which was opposed on the basis that the visiting rugby sides had the right to not have their expression squelched by crowd control concerns. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Freedom of Speech and Symbolic Expression:
We sat in exhaust-fumigated traffic for what seemed like hours without moving, inching our way through Galway as tar squelched under rubber, producing that pungent smell of bitumen and oil.
Here, even though we've had more rain than is normal for a wet April, and some fields lay sodden and squelching, we seem to have escaped lightly.
The clouds were low on the hills and heavy overnight thunder - storms had left the track squelching underfoot, but I was in good, boisterous company.
The senator thoroughly squelched the journalist who tried to interrupt him during his speech.
In a nearby part of the forest, a tall figure dashed confidently through the winding trees, the soft earth squelching slightly beneath his feet.
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The senator thoroughly squelched the journalist who tried to interrupt him during his speech.
So of course, we cut people up, we find organs, we cut them up, and there are veins, and wobbly bits, and spongy parts that go squelch when you poke them.

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