How to Use square with in a Sentence

square with

phrasal verb
  • But the record doesn’t square with the campaign rhetoric.
    David Blackmon, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • What Krista and Bob’s friends told me squared with my own sense of what dating in the Bay Area was like.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 7 July 2025
  • The Austrian used to lurk at the edge of the square with his wife, a Vietnamese woman with long black hair.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But there’s a sweetness about him that’s hard to square with the horrors heaped upon him as a child.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • The dishwasher-safe symbol is a square with a fork and glass, or a square with a glass and water droplet(s).
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The blue app with the cheery white bird became a foreboding black square with a white letter X.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • How can that be squared with the same employees doing their own thing?
    Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Advocates now have to ask courts to overturn laws to square with the new amendment.
    Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2024
  • That squares with some of the ways in which cats are thought to behaviorally depart from dogs.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Become a Subscriber That thought might be tough to square with bats’ recent track record.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The blue square with the stars is referred to as 'the union' on the flag and should always be displayed at the peak of the flagstaff or on the uppermost right side if hung on a wall.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 June 2023
  • The nails in question were shaped into a long squares with a cutout dip in the center of the nail and painted with a bright, eye-catching thick white tip.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 2 Nov. 2023
  • This, of course, does not square with Brissett's traditional box-score stats or the eye test.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 17 Sep. 2024
  • With a pizza cutter, cut into 1 1/2 inch squares and pierce each square with a fork — this keeps them from bubbling.
    Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • That didn't square with her experiences at school, getting called the N-word.
    David Oliver, USA Today, 9 May 2025
  • On the face of it, the evidence doesn't square with Andre's account of an accident.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Mars immediately runs into a square with Saturn on the 25th, which amounts to a bit of a brake slam.
    Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2023
  • And that could result in the war continuing far longer than would square with Mr. Trump’s promises.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Unroll a can of pizza dough out on a flat surface, and cut the dough into 36 squares with a pizza cutter.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Think about keeping the shoulder square with the rest of the body, and place a bit of tension through the shoulder blade to create some stability.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Families brought little children to the square with flags painted on their cheeks.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Quite how that squares with the findings in the Cyber News report will be interesting to explore.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Others appeared simply as a gray square with nondescript alt text, as if the image didn’t load.
    Mia Sato, The Verge, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The federal officials seen in Musk’s video don’t square with the idea that federal troops aren’t policing the border.
    Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • That did not square with Akers’ post on Sunday on X, formerly known as Twitter.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The practical effect is that customers who leave bars and restaurants on the square with a drink will be limited to the sidewalks when outdoors.
    John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2024
  • Evan, who declined to give her last name, arrived at the square with her dog wrapped in an Israeli flag.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That assumption is difficult to square with on-the-ground reporting.
    Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Pair a few squares with some fresh fruit, or make it into a nighttime wind-down ritual.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Except that reading of Dorothy doesn’t square with the evidence.
    Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026

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