Example Sentences

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“If this thing falls on me and kills me, it’s gonna be like, ‘Giant-squash squashes squash-professor,’” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

The family of Ozzy Osbourne have visited a mural of the rock legend made from more than 10,000 pumpkins and squashes.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025

“Time bends. Space is boundless. It squashes a man’s ego. I feel lonely.”

From New York Times • May 15, 2024

The gravitational pull also squashes the spacetime, altering its shape depending on how it's observed.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

The pumpkins and the squashes were piled in orange and yellow and green heaps in the attic’s corners.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder