square with

verb

squared with; squaring with; squares with

1

: to agree with (something)

Your story doesn't square with the facts.

2

: to make (something) agree with (something)

How can they square what they've done with what they've said?

3

: to get agreement about or approval of (something) from (someone)

I'll go on the trip if I can square it with my parents.

Examples of square with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In Paris on Monday night, a police helicopter circled over Place de la Republique overnight, a central point in the weekend clashes, sweeping the square with a searchlight to check that the curfew was being observed. — Tom Nouvian, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

And then the final thing was there are just some features of the original plot that are hard to square with modern morals. — Mya Copeland, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026

On the day Erica and Peter moved into 150 Charles, their attorney claims, they were greeted with a cluttered and dirty space that didn’t square with the $26,000-a-month rent. — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2026

The village’s historic pedestrian downtown, also known as Quadrado—a grassy square with a centuries-old whitewashed chapel on a bluff overlooking the bright-blue sea—is a 20-minute car ride away through a narrow dirt road. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026