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Example sentences for: squeamish
How can you use “squeamish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Practiced by a few, perhaps more squeamish, members.
Take this excerpt, for instance (don't read this if you're squeamish):
However, when a woman goes "National Geographic" and everything is out in the open, I feel a bit squeamish.
Suddenly forced to keep company with men named Vito and Vinnie, to bury a corpse beside the East River, and to make like a gangster with a voice that's a cross between John Wayne and Tweety Bird, the squeamish Englishman winces, bites his lip, bats his eyelashes, shrugs sheepishly, and looks--yes--adorably abashed.
It ought to be self-evident from the subject matter that those who are squeamish about seeing “naughty” words in print should avoid reading the book, which is a longish monograph--the best and most comprehensive I have seen--analyzing the ways in which English speakers deal with taboo words.