squint

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

Maybe you need to squint to see it right now, but after I give you this egg “biscuit” recipe, you’ll be running to the kitchen and that image will become much clearer.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

Of course, if you squint, you can see what interests Soderbergh in this set-up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

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 The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

I squint at the drained milkshake glasses and mound of empty chocolate pudding cups taking up practically the entire space.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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

The squints, frowns and chair shifts don't mislead, although the production's bombardment of cable news-style chyrons either gleefully do or say the quiet part out loud.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022

But Martina Becker, a manager at HGK shipping, squints out at the river and looks concerned.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2022

Dain squints to see the shapes of the letters past my smudges.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

At times if you squinted, it really looked like the varsity versus the JV.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

If she squinted at the doorway, past the palm tree, over the pool and to the mountains, she could pretend that nothing bad had happened.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025

A Boston terrier squinted, her left eye cloudy and eyelids red.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

He squinted and wiggled and stuck his tongue out, and they all laughed.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

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

I’d follow a recipe to the letter and still end up squinting at the oven door, trying to gauge whether I’d accidentally created something leaden or gummy or wrong.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025

Uhmma looks up and purses her lips for a second, and then a slow smile spreads across her face, erasing the faint, squinting worry lines between her eyes.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na