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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:
If you're squeamish, you may cover your eyes when seeing this in a theater.
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.
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.
Take this excerpt, for instance (don't read this if you're squeamish):
Allin created the same kind of talentless, disgusting, yet strangely compelling schlock that Manson puts out, and combined it with a stage show that would make Alice Cooper squeamish.