Example Sentences

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The messages ricochet across an Iowa grocery store, a kind of ambient chorus while, at one of the few remaining manned checkout lines, a cashier squints at his screen.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026

From her home deep in Upper Coquetdale, Sam Wood squints into the sun as she looks up the narrow silvery road which winds up the valley where many farming families have lived for generations.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

But such squints are a poor substitute for certainty; greater clarity may come from JWST’s measurement of how much iron the nebula holds.

From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2023

She squints her eyes, trying to find her young self in the pictures.

From Reuters • Jan. 26, 2023

The man looks up at me and squints.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson