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Significados de squinting em inglês

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Having the two eyes not looking in the same direction.

Having eyes half closed in order to see better.

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Examples for "squint"
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Every year, we squint at Forbesmagazine's list of best-value actors and wonder.
The Irish Times
2
The inventors of this fluted window succeeded in making the heavens squint.
The History of a Crime / The Testimony of an Eye-Witness
3
If you squint and look at him another way, he's obviously Hitler.
NY Magazine
4
Before he left the chart-room Mayo took a squint at the barometer.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
5
I might as well take a squint at myself in the glass.
Wild Kitty
1
Then he and the cross-eyed girl took their places for another quadrille.
Twenty Years of Hus'ling
2
He unrolled his long, rough tongue and looked at it, slightly cross-eyed.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
3
Even her chess-playing doctor father, diminutive, intense and cross-eyed, looked happy.
The Guardian
4
It made him look cross-eyed, and for the first time, uncertain.
Crucifixion river
5
He wasn't exactly cross-eyed, but they looked ever so slightly inwards.
NS13 Zero Hour (2010)
Uso de squinting em inglês
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Who is it?' she says squinting in the light of the lantern.
The Fearless
2
He rolls down the window and he's squinting at the house numbers.
Wiseguy
3
Not...' He squeezed his way round her, stared squinting into the distance.
Orb Sceptre Throne
4
Marsh let go of York's shoulder and moved to the window, squinting.
Fevre Dream
5
Sam followed, squinting his eyes as if that might change the view.
Four dukes and a devil
6
A hideous yellow face with oblique squinting eyes, appeared in the aperture.
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
7
Was it secret police? She was squinting at him from her bed.
Honor thyself
8
Dom was squinting out across what was left of the town, frowning.
Coalition's End
9
She leaned forward, squinting through the windshield at the dark road ahead.
Blue noon
10
She stared hard, squinting at him, struggling to bring him into focus.
The Ghost Next Door
11
They looked up, squinting their eyes against the dazzle of the fire.
The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections fro...
12
He stared, squinting, and finally saw a movement out in the sedges.
The flock
13
He took two turns along the quarter-deck, squinting up into the night.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
14
Then he came up and stood squinting thoughtfully out through the doorway.
The Prairie Wife
15
But not so with the chrono, which causes a lot of squinting.
Wired
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The clouds look heavy and threatening, declared Nora, squinting at the sky.
Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
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