Example sentences for: squash

How can you use “squash” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As an experienced practitioner of paddle tennis, squash, badminton, platform tennis, etc., over the past twenty years I have become convinced that a revised nomenclature for racquet sports is in order.

  • But perhaps some consideration should be given to separating squash racquets more precisely from those games from which it derives and with which it is often confused.

  • For example, serviette, scone, sheila, sister, Smarties, spanner, spot on, squash, starkers , just to pick a handful, are Briticisms; although the author makes that clear, it seems odd that the words and expressions that are direct borrowings from British English are not individually identified as such.

  • Any way you slice it, the Earl of Sandwich was responsible, but only two of the three examples fit the Slurvian rule of swallow and squash.

  • I went to high school--a small school with only a minority of Italians--with a girl named Pochintesta ( poco little, in in, testa head), another named Zucchi (a plural form of zucca squash, or, colloquially, head; Hanks and Hodges say this name was often given to a person of scarce intelligence, as in pumpkinhead), one boy named Chiappa (buttock), and another named Chiappinelli (which may be either an extended diminutive of Chiappa or the diminutive of chiappino , which Battaglia defines as a type of ape).


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