have squinted

• present perfect

  present perfect

  Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.

  of squint.
  squint

  verb (used without object)

  to look with the eyes partly closed.

Example Sentences

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have squinted

For more than a decade, many teams of physicists have squinted to identify and trace each of its accompanying distorted images by eye.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2023

Here, Norman Bowker would have squinted against the low sun.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

And for myself, did a friendly old gentleman offer me lollypops and all-day-suckers—for so did the glittering baubles present themselves across the footlights—like Aladdin I, too, would not have squinted too closely on his claim.

From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks

Scouts and sprouts, I have squinted yonder tree with my trusty right eye and I find we have to cross neutral territory again.

From Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

She owns to have squinted as a child,—it had often been remarked when she was at school.

From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by C. Schweigger

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