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Example sentences for: squelch

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It is in part to drown out these competing impulses and to squelch despair that his lovers fling themselves into each other's arms.
The Christian love doctors believe, against all evidence, that teen-agers can squelch their hormones and homosexuals their essences.
An essay urges England to withdraw its soccer team from the World Cup if it is unable to squelch the violence of hooligan fans.
When reports about McCain's bad temper first emerged out of Arizona this fall, they indicated that he had muscled, rebuked, punished, and cowed fellow Republicans in order to squelch dissent.
Sampans and scows ply the canals that divide the farmlands, where barefoot peasants in straw coolie hats squelch through the muddy rice fields.