squint
Example Sentences
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She squinted against the burning midsummer late-afternoon sun that glinted in at a hard angle through the window.
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Mrs. Jones’s feet make shuffling sounds on her porch, and I don’t have to see her to know she’s scanning the alleyway, squinting into the shadows.
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The bear squinted, as if he’d stumbled upon some place he was not meant to be.
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Though the smoke cut Charlie’s eyes, he squinted through it at Pearl.
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Taking off his own birch bast, Torak squinted at the snow.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.