squelch

Example Sentences

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My socks squelch with each step in my new boots, earning a string of cringes.

From Literature

I see now that I was being “optoomuchstic” in thinking I could squelch your natural curiosity and powers of deduction.

From Literature

Still, she said, the case revealed "a series of statements by Zuckerberg at the time of those acquisitions that looked like a desire to squelch a nascent threat to Facebook's dominance".

From BBC

This year has seen unrelenting bad news for L.A. nightlife — the impacts of the wildfires, the continued Hollywood strike fallout, the cost-of-living crisis and ICE raids and protests that temporarily squelched downtown’s after-dark industry.

From Los Angeles Times

Heavy hailstones hissed into the grass and squelched into the mud and clanged off our robot.

From Literature