Example sentences for: squat

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  • Movie reviewers echo the music critics' pans of the popular Spice Girls and conclude that "sometimes the Zeitgeist counts for squat" (David Kronke, the Los Angeles Times ). The group's feature film, in which they're harassed by a tabloid reporter, is trashed as a "plotless, pointless, mirthless" knock-off of the Beatles' Hard Day's Night (Richard Harrington, the Washington Post ). The pop stars do get credit for exhibiting self-deprecating humor and apparent awareness that "they have achieved ludicrous measures of fame and fortune on the strength of markedly limited talents" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ). (Clips are available.)

  • This building is a rather squat 17th-century structure said to have been made from the wood of a single tree.

  • But this new, rather squat automobile is introduced in a context that confers on it the mythic feel of transformative incarnation.

  • Late in the book, Lewis remarks bitterly on press coverage that referred to Bond as "light-skinned, dashing, erudite, articulate" and to Lewis as "short, squat, thick-necked, balding, dark, scowling, a sharecropper's son."

  • Mangrove swamps along the coast and squat nipa palms give rise to mangrove jungle.


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