squinch

He communicates with Ms. Da Silva through a breathy whisper and by blinking and squinching the cheek he can still move.

Jay scraped the bottom of his bowl of fruit and I squinched my face up at the sound.

He squinched his eyes tight, looking like he was about to cry.

His artisans cut and carved it; they dressed slim pillars in it and giant domes; they shoved it in squinches and let it unfurl over the spandrels of arches.

Also, the smallest scrub of trees, whoopee, way, way off in the distance, though you have to squinch your eyes to see them.