How to Use squire in a Sentence
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Sir Duncan the Tall, and his squire Egg.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
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The squire, the son of a land owner, turns out to be the bad guy in the book, taking more and more.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2019
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Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, Egg, to be precise.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2025
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The Triumph and two of the country squires have not taken off much in value over the years.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 Oct. 2025
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The boy squire shines bright in the otherwise drab surrounds of the tourney campgrounds.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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His hair has been cut into the same shape, close-cropped and featuring the tiny bangs of a medieval squire, for more than a decade.
—New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
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The mysterious Egg scoffs at Dunk’s rope belt but offers to be his squire.
—Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2026
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Against Maekar’s wishes, Dunk and Egg ride away together as knight and squire.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Feb. 2026
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There are jaunty fellows in pocket squares eager to greet you, squire you to a table, and discuss cocktails.
—Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
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The Queen's ladies show off their intricate gowns, while little boys dressed in ballet slippers and puffy sleeves serve as squires.
—Tara Massouleh, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
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Initially, Dunk doesn’t treat the boy as a prince but as a young inexperienced squire.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
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One such charity case was young Dunk, whom the older knight saved from a thief’s knife before taking on the boy as his squire.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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Sancho, on the other hand, was the humble servant and the practical, common-sense squire.
—David Casarett, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2015
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And will Prince Aegon be allowed to keep serving as Duncan’s squire?
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
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The knight and his diminutive squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) go to a puppet show.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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He's then approached by a child named Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) asking to be his squire.
—Maddie Garfinkle, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
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The Rockford squire wrote an article back around his birth and nicknamed him Storm Trooper.
—April Stevens, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2018
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In such a dark universe, where characters will stop at nothing for a bit of power, the Lady and her squire are a glimmer of light.
—Stephanie Merry, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2017
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Mick tells of buying a historic mansion, Stargroves, while high on acid and of trying out the life of horse-riding country squire.
—Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 16 Feb. 2017
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Alongside the knight and his squire, there is a princess — Tate — who lives in something like a castle and is married to a man who looks a little like a frog.
—New York Times, 24 July 2019
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Rich aristocrats could breed horses and hunting dogs, but for the squires and their circle, dog breeding was a better fit in every respect.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 24 Aug. 2019
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Knight Jean de Carrouges must settle a dispute with a good ol’ fashioned duel, after his wife charges the squire with rape.
—Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 22 Mar. 2022
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Their mother is an eccentric genius who wrote math books and both parents came across more middle class than the country squires of Doyle’s stories.
—Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 5 Jan. 2017
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Dunk and Egg set out from the Ashford tourney on horseback to explore the world, now officially as hedge knight and squire.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Mar. 2026
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The other, Ken Dodd, stayed firmly on the ground, the joke-telling squire of the jam butty mines of Knotty Ash.
—Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
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The wife and squire are played by Jodie Comer and Adam Driver, respectively.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 28 July 2021
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Whether Egg had Maekar’s permission to join Dunk’s travels as his squire is left more open ended in the novella itself.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
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Martyn was a squire in the Lannister army who was held prisoner by the Tullys, then killed off, along with his brother Willem.
—Megan Friedman, Cosmopolitan, 14 June 2016
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John Harnage danced the stand-alone role of the knight-like young man who remains apart from his squire-like companions, whose dashing moves frame his more decorous presence.
—Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
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The performance takes the form of a ride through the city, with our knight and his squire Sancho-Saïd battling against the fences and other obstacles in their way.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
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His son Philip was due to squire me about in our hunting block.
—Warren Page, Field & Stream, 13 Nov. 2020
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The teen idols squired Evert and Navratilova to a drive-in movie.
—Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
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The woman dressed her pet monkeys in baby clothes and squired them around in a pram.
—James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
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Prince Maekar still wants Ser Duncan to take Aegon to squire.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
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Of course, Raquel has been squired away in some sort of mental health facility since mid-April.
—Vulture, 6 June 2023
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This former waitress was now being squired about in limos and being interviewed on The Today Show.
—Mimi Pond, People.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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More romantically, by the late 17th century, yeoman was the rank of chivalry between page and squire.
—Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025
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Back near the kitchen Italian playboy Gianni Agnelli squired a woman so breathtaking even the gay maître d' went weak at the knees.
—Jay Cheshes, Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2013
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There was a date in the Italian city of Verona with a charming classical musician who squired her around on a scooter and gave her a nighttime tour of the city’s many historic spots.
—Faith Karimi, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
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The post-credits scene of the finale reveals that Maekar did not give Egg permission to squire Dunk, something that isn’t explicit in the novella.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
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The post-credits scene in the finale reveals that Maekar did not give Egg permission to squire Dunk, something that isn’t made explicit in the novella.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
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Katzenberg, who spent the weekend squiring the president to the Hamptons, apparently offered neither.
—Maer Roshan, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Systems of iron rungs for grip, and cables to clip in, squire visitors along vertical rock, up and down ladders, and across harrowing suspension bridges that offer no shortage of awe-inspiring views.
—J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 15 June 2022
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Of course, while many of us grow up dreaming about cruising winding roads in a roadster, reality ends up looking like squiring our kids and groceries around sprawling suburban streets in something with at least two rows of seats.
—Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020
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The singer subsequently squired screen goddesses including Ava Gardner.
—Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2018
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And Mazzola himself was an early mover in the tradition of fashion magazine editors squiring actresses and singers to the collections.
—Stephen Mooallem, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Sep. 2017
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Most of these demonstrators were recent transplants from farm to city; the keynote speaker in Manchester, the radical politician Henry Hunt, was the son of a country squire.
—Salvatore Babones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2015
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This is all well above the figurative pay grade of Dunk, a simple, hulking youth who grew up squiring for Ser Arlan of Pennytree (Danny Webb).
—Judy Berman, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
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Bismarck, a country squire and political genius, used Germany's new semi-democratic political structure to rise to power.
—Jonathan Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2011
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The film’s story consists, in large part, of the conflict that Ana faces between squiring Christian through his urgent roundelay of business functions and pushing her own editorial career ahead.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2017
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That creates a reason for Lumir to stick around, helping squire her mother through the movie-making process, while trying to rein in her dismissive, imperious attitude toward practically everyone around her.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 1 July 2020
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According to the auctioneer, they were given to Napoleon’s friend and squire Armand de Caulaincourt just after the emperor attempted suicide in April 1814.
—Catherine Nicholls, CNN, 8 July 2024
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Sedona, gateway to Arizona’s red rock country 90 minutes drive north of Phoenix, attracts hikers eager to scale its striated buttes and New Age pilgrims seeking the fabled vortexes — or energy centers — said to be squired in the rocks.
—Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
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Historians are frequently invited to give talks at other universities, and graduate students shoulder the burden of organizing them—e-mails, pickups at the train station, squiring visitors around to various Gothic towers for genteel exchanges.
—Rachel Nolan, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2019
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