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Example sentences for: squelch

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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.
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 only way to squelch subversive messages is to block the Internet entirely, which would cripple economic growth.
Some aspects of the new diet also improve fatigue and sleep patterns, so that overwhelming fatigue did not squelch subjects' newfound motivation.
Sampans and scows ply the canals that divide the farmlands, where barefoot peasants in straw coolie hats squelch through the muddy rice fields.