squint
Example Sentences
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I flip over the waterfall picture and squint at her smudged handwriting.
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He faced ahead and squinted into the cloud, trying to see.
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Their light made him squint as they wrapped themselves around the brass handle and their force swung the door open.
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He stood and squinted against the rain, then let out a sigh of relief when he spotted a pinpoint of light much farther away than it should have been.
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Travis is seldom as blunt in his daily interactions with people, who often squint and look past the instability that is so subtly rendered by Mr. De Niro.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.