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squint

[ US /ˈskwɪnt/ ]
[ UK /skwˈɪnt/ ]
VERB
  1. partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light
    The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield
  2. be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
  3. cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
    The children squinted so as to scare each other
NOUN
  1. abnormal alignment of one or both eyes
  2. the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed
ADJECTIVE
  1. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
    sidelong glances
    her eyes with their misted askance look
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How To Use squint In A Sentence

  • After squinting in an attempt to discern a couple of features to make the object recognizable, he began walking swiftly towards it.
  • The two antennas 'squinted' to view the same point on Earth. Space News From SpaceDaily.Com
  • The contrail went straight up, bisecting the Sun, forcing the crowd to squint and awkwardly block the Sun to see the contrail.
  • Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
  • There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
  • I go as far as to hold it up against me and squint into a shiny reflective panel attached to a freezer cabinet. Times, Sunday Times
  • He squinted at the letter in his hand.
  • Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache. The Younger Set
  • I squinted into the darkness, barely distinguishing anything.
  • While you're slaving over the code, cramping your thumb on your trackball, and squinting your eyes at the pixels, remember what it is you are doing this for, and never ever forget.
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