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Meanings of squinch in English
Synonyms
Examples for "shrink"
Examples for "shrink"
1
But perhaps money market funds need to shrink for the greater good.
2
As a result they no longer work and they start to shrink.
3
Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.
4
Its economy is expected to shrink this year due to austerity measures.
5
Investors paid up for companies that did not shrink potential future production.
1
However, the Vaqueros didn't flinch and drew within seven points at intermission.
2
She had never seen him flinch from the dangers his research entailed.
3
They didn't even flinch at the gunfire, just kept right on coming.
4
Erius gave no sign that he'd heard, but Tobin saw Korin flinch.
5
He took a step forward, but stopped when he saw her flinch.
1
The chap in the near-by funk hole began to amuse me now.
2
From the opening dialled-up funk salvo of Music: Response I was hooked.
3
The funk does half the business in a man of that build.
4
Major misstep: an inexplicable lack of Brazilian favela funk tracks about butts.
5
Two days later, I'm still in a funk about my roommates' gay-bashing.
1
Kiril fought a sympathetic wince; they were neither of them young anymore.
2
It embarrassed the Collector; the girl did not so much as wince.
3
Often, she saw him wince, and she asked him concerning his expressions.
4
Tania had added more Tabasco than usual today, but Celeste didn't wince.
5
I wince, remembering a time when I was held down and forced.
1
She said, 'I suppose there will be a certain amount of recoil.'
2
This was a good weapon, well-balanced, large trigger, rubber grip, short recoil.
3
The recoil would bury it in the earth if they tried that.
4
But I was ashamed to recoil in the presence of the hunter.
5
Some recoil in terror before that test; others, feeble and affrighted, vacillate.
1
The quail on the side-hills were still sounding the clear water call.
2
Others ran up the mountain-side, and cowered in the brush like quail.
3
And Paul was not the most daring cock quail in the stubble.
4
Again he heard the distant report of the shot-gun from the quail-hunters.
5
A quail whistled from the tangle of blackberry briars by the roadside.
1
It's not great either, but it's far from an entirely cringe-worthy catastrophe.
2
I used to cringe whenever his name came up in history class.
3
They will make you cringe, cry and not question making better choices.
4
What is meant to look macho is actually the cringe of panic.
5
Within the treasure cards deck, there are three cringe-inducing Waters Rise cards.
Portuguese
olhar de soslaio Catalan
mig aclucar Usage of squinch in English
1
Just saying that name makes my lips squinch up like I ate something bad.
2
She's no soft-heart to squinch at the sight of blood, and that sort of foolery.
3
They used to talk 'bout ha'nts and squinch owls.
4
Okada rose and bowed his squinch-owl bow.
5
That there's what comes o' being so dad-blame' hongry that ye can't squinch fair atween the gun-sights.
6
I felt my eyebrows squinch together.
7
I pulled the material out and away and did a sort of sideways downward squinch to have a look at it.
8
And there might now be a Guardian of the Way who would make you squinch up your face and feel the Great Sound Almighty.
9
But if you squinch your eyes and let go of your thoughts, you begin to see leaf pictures- aflower , asailboat ,ora tree.
10
If a squinch owl starts howlin' 'round your house and if you turn your shoe upside down at the door, they sure will hush.
11
Mr. Lyss's face started to squinch up like it did when he was about to go into a fit, but then the squinching stopped.
12
Lone Wolf and his men will swallow you down without winkin', and then be mad that there ain't somethin' left to squinch thar hunger.
13
Also I'd indicated prairie dogs and squinch owls and Gambel's quail and road runners and a couple of coyotes and lizards and other miscellaneous fauna.
14
There were cramps in my abdomen, like mice squinching through narrow tubes.
15
She crossed her arms and squinched up her face in a disbelieving frown.
16
After all these years, I still wanted-He squinched his eyes tightly shut.
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Translations for squinch
Spanish
Russian
Squinch through the time