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squinted

verb as in scrunch up eyes when viewing

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Example Sentences

I squinted at the spot, about five meters up the tree trunk, and saw only a brown knob speckled with gray.

I squinted and tried to make out the tangerine-hued tendrils that snaked their way across the ground under a veil of hot steam.

In a year already turned upside down by the coronavirus and economic upheaval, students were refreshing their screens, squinting at results and trying to make sense of the most consequential election of their young lives.

You don’t need to squint when you’re looking for a blinding flash.

She squinted, blinked sporadically, and tilted her head, as if straining to wrestle answers from her brain.

He squinted at my name-tag and, after finding out that I was a fiction writer, asked what kind of work I did.

At her side was her calf, which turned and squinted at us through baby eyes.

I will never forget the rays of January sunshine that I squinted into after those seven hours were finally over.

She squinted up and down 55th before someone yelled directions, and she walked eastward to find it.

No one had seen Konnel, apparently, so I went outside and squinted along the dim, narrow street.

He got up, planted both feet on it and teetered back and forth, chuckling up at Bud with his eyes squinted.

He moved one of those pointers you see there, and squinted around at the different scales and dials, and then stepped back.

O'Day squinted his eyes, his lips moving in silent calculation.

Parr squinted at the huts, around the doors of which lounged the other men.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to squinted, such as: peek, peep, look, squinch, cock the eye, and look askance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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