are squinting
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present progressiveof squint.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
squintverb (used without object)to look with the eyes partly closed.
Example Sentences
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With a chance to become the first female snowboarder to win two gold medals, Marino surely will attract plenty of eyes in PyeongChang — even if some of them are squinting.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2018
His eyes are squinting and his lips move as if to mutter something, but he decides against it and purses his lips shut.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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I know, they all sit near the window, and are squinting out at everybody that passes.
From The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed