squint
verb (used without object)
to look with the eyes partly closed.
squints
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present tense formof squint (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
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
In a frost-encrusted park in the east of Amsterdam, poet and equal rights activist Quinsy Gario squints in the afternoon sun.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2022
“That’s right, young man,” Garret Charles says, and then squints at the boy’s number, pinned to his stupid hip, and whispers something to Monica.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
