squint

“I don’t want to be Pollyannish, but when I squint my eyes I see American strength more than American weakness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

If you squint and look at him one way, he seems like a moderate, but look at him from another angle, and he seems super progressive.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

You can’t squint past the distracting lens flares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

It takes great courage to look into the past with clear eyes, especially when what you’ll see is bound to remain hazy, forcing you to squint and carve out whatever truth you can from it.

From Salon ● May 25, 2026

If I squint hard enough, I can barely see a tiny red rectangle that looks like a sign.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

The messages ricochet across an Iowa grocery store, a kind of ambient chorus while, at one of the few remaining manned checkout lines, a cashier squints at his screen.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026

But such squints are a poor substitute for certainty; greater clarity may come from JWST’s measurement of how much iron the nebula holds.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2023

She squints her eyes, trying to find her young self in the pictures.

From Reuters ● Jan. 26, 2023

In a frost-encrusted park in the east of Amsterdam, poet and equal rights activist Quinsy Gario squints in the afternoon sun.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2022

Once he’s upright he holds the kerosene lamp out and squints into my face.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

My head was tilted at an angle that brought the odometer into view, so I squinted: It was about to hit a half-million.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Yet, as he squinted to read the small print on jars of Skippy sitting on the same shelf, the 68-year old made a more disappointing discovery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

If you squinted, you could have sworn it was 2019 again, back when downtown L.A.was the heart of the city’s nightlife before the pandemic knocked it sideways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

As the cars zoomed around the track, spectators squinted to decipher whose ride was whose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

They squinted and grinned at the camera with the green ocean behind them.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

Carlson is squinting as he asks his questions in a way that sounds naive and lets Huckabee fill the space.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026

But once you have accepted the limitations and frustrations, the experience will justify squinting your eyes and straining your neck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

The blinding brilliance of his plays left theatergoers still squinting to see whether his work had much of a heart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025

Outside, a woman called Pat from Manchester was squinting at the sun and gathering her thoughts.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025

Then me and Howard headed off toward the road, peering into tangled shrubs and squinting into the dark woods along the way.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor