Example sentences for: squeamish

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

  • Which leads us to another intriguing similarity between Leaving a Doll's House and What Falls Away : Both have met with awkward, squeamish reviews.

  • The heroes of Real Life (1979), Modern Romance (1981), and Lost in America (1985) have their jerky sides (emotionally squeamish viewers tend to find them repellent), but they also have compensatory gifts--chiefly Brooks' urgent babble, in which pleas are made and then restated and then turned inside out in a way that brilliantly (and hilariously) distills neurotic thought processes.

  • 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.

  • If you're squeamish, you may cover your eyes when seeing this in a theater.

  • Hawks deride Clinton for having let squeamish NATO partners such as Italy and Germany curtail the early stages of the war.


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