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NOUN
  1. a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)
VERB
  1. crouch down
  2. draw back, as with fear or pain
    she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
  3. cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
    The children squinted so as to scare each other

How To Use squinch In A Sentence

  • But if spraddle is a term which has never completely gone out of style, squinch is downright popular.
  • The children all squinched their eyes together tightly, forcing themselves to stay inert, struggling to focus on keeping their eyes shut.
  • He larn ter toot lak a squinch-owl frum Marse Scoville en he tole me dat when he come agin he toot. Miss Lou
  • She squinched up her nose and gave him that oh-you're so-adorable look.
  • But the candidate squinched up his face in concentration, as if racing through various programming alternatives. In the Plex
  • An 'then, them eyes jes' set up sech a outdacious winkin 'an' wallin ', an' squinchin ', ez I knowed he war makin' faces at me. Down the Ravine
  • 'E bin scatter da' fier wide 'part, un' e do run un dife in da 'crik fer squinch da' fier 'pon' e bahk. Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
  • She squinches her forehead, trying to remember.
  • ‘It'll be hard to find other good female friends as good-looking as you,’ he said and Adia squinched her nose.
  • So there was, of course, no other alternative than to hide away on a cot, squinched to the wall as far as I could go.
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