was squashing
- past progressive of squash.
Example Sentences
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He subsequently became embroiled in a bitter child custody fight with the child's mother; Assange's mother told the magazine this inculcated in her son a deep antipathy to bureaucracy which he believed was "squashing people."
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2010
I clocked out and left without no good-byes and stomp down the street like I was squashing bugs.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
Comrade Pillai had finished his avial and was squashing a ripe banana, extruding the sludge through his closed fist into his plate of curd, when Velutha knocked.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Hermione was squashing Phineas Nigellus’s portrait back into the beaded bag; when she had fastened the clasp she threw the bag aside and raised a shining face to Harry.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
And I wasn’t sure about Betsy, but that always made me feel just a little bit better, like I was squashing Darren Ackleman in my head, even if I couldn’t squash him in real life.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
