squints 1 of 2

plural of squint

squints

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verb

present tense third-person singular of squint

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of squints
Noun
And in a third, the gaunt 30-year-old killer flexes, purses his lips and squints. Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Byrne has never been better, sharper, or more intimidating as a screen presence, carrying the movie with squints and frowns. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squints
Noun
  • For all its outré looks, Area has had its over-the-top runway styles translate into highly covetable denim styles and slinky miniskirts and jackets covered in signature rhinestones and pearls.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Pittman noted the Rebels didn’t run their offense at their standard lightning pace for much of the game and did a lot of looks to the sidelines for late play adjustments.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the picture, Duggar holds her son, who wears a gray onesie and stares into the camera.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Thus, Botticelli’s Jesus, who stares at the fruit in deep thought, perhaps prophesies his own death and return, as opposed to the child in the Dreyfus Madonna, who proudly shows the unity of his church to his mother.
    Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In Competition Tender Claws’ Face Jumping, uses eye-tracking on the Meta Quest Pro to let participants swap perspectives with what looked like ghosts, by locking gazes with them.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The nurse smiles, but glances at the clock.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • On the other side of the aisle, Emmet chooses the same and the steward glances towards me.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Based on Alice Oseman's popular webcomic turned graphic novels, Heartstopper is loaded with longing glares, timid greetings, delicate touches, and all the definitive hallmarks of young love as two classmates fall for each other at Truham Grammar School for Boys.
    James Mercadante, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The second season promises eight episodes of more deadpan humor, soulless glares from Jenna Ortega as the titular character and even a Lady Gaga cameo, as Wednesday takes on another eerie supernatural mystery at Nevermore Academy.
    Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The button is surrounded by an LED that blinks to warn you if the door is unlocked.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The camera never blinks as Ye speaks candidly about living with bipolar disorder, offering rare insight into the realities of mental illness and its impact on identity, perception, and power.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Jihan peers closer at these images, now sensing in some of them that her father seems preoccupied, as if already aware of the tragic fate that would befall him.
    Leila Latif, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The man, clad in what appears to be several motion sickness patches behind his ears, peers out over the ocean as waves batter the vessel.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Booths are along the windows and counter seating peeks in at the kitchen.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Squints.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squints. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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