Example sentences for: squinting

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

  • So was I,squinting into the warm darkness in which they stirredas if to the bottom of a moonlit pool,as if what should surface nonetheless was a gun in my face.They got back with a can of gas so fastthe whole event took about the time of a Howard Johnson hamburger,and probably less time than a Howard Johnson hamburger off a lifein which it's almost impossiblenot to feel blessed.

  • His picture in the New York Times had something to do with it too: At 75, squinting and overcome with emotion, he looked like a mole emerging from an underground tunnel--or, with his thick eyeglasses and white-fringed bald dome, like Mr. Magoo.

  • They included the sparsely coifed ballard , the squinting, weak-eyed blincard (who could also be one who deliberately ignored reality), the hobbling mendicant limpard or clochard (from French clocher to limp), the stammering mafflard , and the scallards and scabbards who suffered from some skin disease.

  • The building blocks of FACS are 46 "action units " (AUs) such as a wrinkling of the nose, a puffing of the cheeks, dilation of the nostrils, squinting, and so on.


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