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Meanings of squint in English
Portuguese
estrabismo Catalan
estrabisme 
Russian
прищуривание 
Portuguese
olhar de soslaio Catalan
mig aclucar Synonyms
Examples for "squinting"
Examples for "squinting"
1
Who is it?' she says squinting in the light of the lantern.
2
He rolls down the window and he's squinting at the house numbers.
3
Not...' He squeezed his way round her, stared squinting into the distance.
4
Marsh let go of York's shoulder and moved to the window, squinting.
5
Sam followed, squinting his eyes as if that might change the view.
1
Then he and the cross-eyed girl took their places for another quadrille.
2
He unrolled his long, rough tongue and looked at it, slightly cross-eyed.
3
Even her chess-playing doctor father, diminutive, intense and cross-eyed, looked happy.
4
It made him look cross-eyed, and for the first time, uncertain.
5
He wasn't exactly cross-eyed, but they looked ever so slightly inwards.
Usage of squint in English
1
Every year, we squint at Forbesmagazine's list of best-value actors and wonder.
2
The inventors of this fluted window succeeded in making the heavens squint.
3
If you squint and look at him another way, he's obviously Hitler.
4
Before he left the chart-room Mayo took a squint at the barometer.
5
I might as well take a squint at myself in the glass.
6
Now he cranked up the rheostat far enough to make me squint.
7
Though not bright, the sudden illumination caused my good eye to squint.
8
His eyes had a periodical squint; his brows wore a persistent frown.
9
The guide stopped chopping long enough to squint at the fat boy.
10
Interesting, by the way: every time she laughs, her squint gets worse.
11
But man at best gives it one terrified squint in a lifetime.
12
He had to squint to read the words in the torchlit yard.
13
She found herself looking into Mildred's squint, and it flickered somewhat ominously.
14
The sunlight caused me to squint while I gazed across the desert.
15
I had to squint to see anything past the ridiculously bright sunlight.
16
Hoffman had to squint to see the page in the dim light.
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Translations for squint
Catalan
Russian
Squint through the time
Squint across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common