squatted

Example Sentences

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Others squatted on balcony steps or leaned against walls for the roughly 90-minute service.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Instead of of keeping his distance from the pile, he squatted, reached out and lit it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024

Two accounts on Instagram called the Camden Art Cafe and Autonomous Winter Shelter have posted about a "new squatted community space" at the York & Albany hotel.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2024

Found within a kilometre of the Danish parliament, Freetown Christiania was established in 1971 when a bunch of anarchists and hippies squatted inside a vacant military base.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2024

Master squatted beside him and began to search through the charred paper, muttering, “My research papers are all here, nekene nke, this is the one on my rank tests for signal detection....”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie