How To Use Squashed In A Sentence
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My plan was firmly squashed by the committee.
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But it is a mushy concept that can be squashed into any shape you like.
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Crisps are squashed flat in an instant.
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The tomatoes at the bottom of the bag had been squashed.
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Robert was lucky to escape with just a broken foot after being squashed against a fence by a car.
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I had to fly in four different planes for 30 hours almost non-stop, squashed in economy class, the trip ending in Slovakia under the tight scrutiny of heavily armed troops.
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The bananas have got all squashed up in the basket.
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But it is a mushy concept that can be squashed into any shape you like.
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In one bound I was across the room and had squashed it into dust.
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Although no one has bounced off a trampoline or been squashed by a widescreen TV at my house (yet!
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Her hair had been squashed down by her hat.
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I squashed the idea as soon as it crossed my mind.
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There are also plenty of nostalgic nods back to Webb's 1970s childhood when eccles cakes were referred to as squashed fly cakes and bourbon biscuits were regularly remarked on as looking like something you might give to the dog.
Food Britannia by Andrew Webb – review
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He squashed his nose against the window.
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In addition to the major redesign, deprecated APIs are no longer included in the app and several bugs have been squashed.
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It's quite weird because they're squashed between bits of transparent perspex, so you can see them in their flattened state.
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Robert was lucky to escape with just a broken foot after being squashed against a fence by a car.
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One little girl was squashed like a tomato, but we got the other four into an ambulance and they survived.
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I often tuck cloves around a joint of meat, so the soft, sweet paste can be squashed into the gravy.
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A third saguaro lies full-length in the dirt, one end squashed flat and stamped with the imprint of tire treads.
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It was squashed between a tobacconist and a dressmakers in the middle of a street which was primarily shops.
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Renwick climbed aboard a young horse in the yard at home last week and was horribly squashed underneath his mount when it reared over backwards.
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Here we get Jesus with mouse ears and a squashed bollock of a face, monsters in fishnets, and several portraits giving our queen the Condo treatment.
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She quickly squashed the small pang of jealousy that had risen up in her.
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The nose was au naturel too, now that Nefret had removed the squashed lump of putty.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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I squashed him with a sarcastic remark.
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So what does irregular handwriting, with sudden loops, squashed sprawls, and verticals ticking like metronomes, say about the man?
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The normal signs of a tough scrap would usually be .. swollen features, squashed "konk" lumpy forehead and teeth like a bombed out church .. hang on a bit ...
East Side Boxing
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He squashed his nose against the window.
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There's still a nice little blue Ford under all that dust, grime and beneath the layers of squashed insects.
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Even choosing something to try on is hard because the gowns are normally stored in plastic covers and squashed into racks.
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Among edgy garrisons, with military pride an ingredient, something to be squashed immediately.
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You were all squashed together like sardines.
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The company have asked that cartons, cans and plastic containers be rinsed, dried and squashed.
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But to dismiss it as a squashed minivan or tall wagon does not do it justice.
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I've heard some talk about that, but I hope I squashed the rumours adequately.
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We were so squashed we were just living in one room.
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The ten of us were squashed together like sardines in the lift.
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Parts of plants are generally described as ‘succulent’ if they are particularly fleshy, not woody, to the feel and noticeably watery if squashed.
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The old boy you see on the next train to Brighton – squashed between a loose-bowelled toddler and a teen playing Kings of Leon at top volume – could well be Lord Justice Judge.
Train travel: First among equals
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All that remains visible is something that looks like a long, squashed bud.
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No matter where we position her in the crib by morning she is squashed up against the top of the mattress and the covers are in a wadded mass at the opposite end.
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The ground crew can now work to refuel, clean the squashed bugs off the bubble and put the aircraft to bed.
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It has a gravitas which brings the crushing weight of history - the recipient risks being squashed.
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We all squashed in the lift when the building caught fire.
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The ground crew can now work to refuel, clean the squashed bugs off the bubble and put the aircraft to bed.
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The fruit at the bottom of the box had been squashed.
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Some people were trapped by a vehicle that was crushed and squashed around them, so the roof needed to be taken off.
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Wonder what he'd look like squashed in a car boot?
The Sun
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Improved road design could mean fewer squashed hedgehogs and other mammal casualties, according to experts.
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The anthers of each flower were squashed in a drop of 2% acetic orcein to intensify the staining of meiotic cells.
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It is easy to say McClellan should have spoken up earlier while he was at the White House, but don't you think he would have been squashed in discredited back then?
Dole to McClellan: You're a 'miserable creature'
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I often tuck cloves around a joint of meat, so the soft, sweet paste can be squashed into the gravy.
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Five of us squashed rapidly into a two man tent and despite the odds slept until daybreak.
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The fumes of the fuel in their squashed space made it hard to breathe.
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If 20% unemployment can be maintained, along with high levels of private debt, and economic activity amongst the lower orders can be suppressed, squashed, quelled and controlled, there will be no inflation.
Matthew Yglesias » Stepping on the Monetary Gas Pedal
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One poor mite was squashed at the back of the pack with an elbow in the eye.
The Sun
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There was a pea, slightly squashed, stuck on Sam's bellybutton.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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The ending footage is an artistic expression of the subtext that the enemy, looked down from a vantage point, are squashed like roaches under the snooperscope in a detached, game way, as if they were sub-human.
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The fruit at the bottom of the box had been squashed.
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He could be squashed like a fat-fly by those that pay him if he somehow becomes dispensible.
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Many others enjoy the tonic of deep and peaceful slumber when not squashed under the duvet with their partner.
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Patriotism rallied the nation and previously popular anti-war sentiments were effectively squashed.
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Others look squashed, wavy, and almost solarized with too-white brightness.
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Going into the last and final round, the scheduled 12 rounder had been squashed up, squeezed down and condensed into the space of three minutes.
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Small fragments of liver tissue were placed on slides in a drop of 45% acetic acid, mounted under coverslips and squashed.
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She winked and a picture of Shawn flashed through my mind, which I squashed down immediately.
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The shortage of property in the south means that boxy apartments and bog-standard houses in London's squashed suburbs sell for silly money.
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Soundtrack promo (mis-presented in a 16: 9 format that looks vertically "squashed" -
Home Theater Forum
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If one partner is particularly tall, she says, they may often end up sleeping diagonally - leaving the smaller partner squashed into a corner of the bed.
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Maureen's wheelchair takes up most of the space in the elevator, leaving me squashed against Clay.
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As with Neil getting squashed for his "affair" with a 15 year old girl, those of this ilk is like stepping on a pregnant cockroach and all one gets is the satisfaction of hearing the splat.
Laying himself off (Jack Bog's Blog)
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And sometimes they have a quality that is incredible, just the sheer texture of the sound, this crushed, squashed sound that you get from using cheap limiters and so on.
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One benefit of the committee is that since ideas become public immediately, an individual idea can't be squashed by only one manager.
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Many an enthusiastic proposal has been squashed by an economist with a calculator and too much time on his hands.
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As one insect is squashed, another takes his place.
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They squashed into an undersized reception room.
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When I started stammering something about plans I already had, Claire squashed all my hopes for getting out of it.
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Squashed uneasily between Russia and the smug democracies of Western Europe, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary all want to join NATO. One school of thought in the administration, led by Lynn Davis, under secretary of state for international-security affairs, pressed what one European diplomat calls a "maximalist" approach.
'Don't Gloat' Wins The Day
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The cat got run over by the lorry and squashed.
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There was a pea, slightly squashed, stuck on Sam's bellybutton.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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In one bound I was across the room and had squashed it into dust.
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A microwave field will then interact with this system as two dipoles or a net quadrupole, which causes the vertices to oscillate and the tetrahedron is deformed by being periodically squashed and distended in resonance with the microwave field.
Quantum Hyperion
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Under O'Keefe and Steidle NASA was heading toward your suggested fly-off competition operating model (which DOES compare better to your cited examples), but Griffin squashed that and reshaped Constellation along the old NASA paradigm: govt dictates the precise design, industry builds that design under an exclusive contract.
Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch
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He flung the cigarette to the ground and squashed it slowly with the toe of his right shoe.
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Root caps were removed and the meristem was placed in a drop of 45% acetic acid on a clean microscope slide, macerated and squashed between slide and coverslip.
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He accidentally sat on her hat and squashed it.
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He flung the cigarette to the ground and squashed it slowly with the toe of his right shoe.
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The car crumpled at both ends until it looked like a squashed cartoon car - a crushed tin can.
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His mother had immediately squashed that idea.
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In the allotments, paths overgrown with nettles and docks are littered with squashed cans and chocolate wrappers between walls of rusting corrugated iron topped with barbed wire.
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I sat on my hat and squashed it.
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They squashed into an undersized reception room.
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Four businessmen with laptops and mobile phones were squashed onto our table.
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The car crumpled at both ends until it looked like a squashed cartoon car - a crushed tin can.
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The cat got run over by the lorry and squashed.
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In the screenshot above there are two events (they are a little squashed, that is a bug).
Unleashing The Ubuntu LoCo Directory | jonobacon@home
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Four years and over £10m worth of squashed fruit sales later, critics could be reviewing their scepticism.
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The fumes of the fuel in their squashed space made it hard to breathe.
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She held the feeling in tight, she squashed it down under the heavy pasteboard covers of the recipe book.
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I am still trying to get my mind around a squirrel phobia - That would be a person to date, unlike spiders who must be squashed and mice that must be trapped or worse SNAPPED ug, I have that job as Linda has mouse phobia, sqirrels are kind of twitchy by nature and easily scared.
My day with 'Demon Child' and Psycho the squirrel
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Thankfully, that proposal has now been squashed, and the hard-working New Zealander who always foots the bill will not be subject to that tax, at least.
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News of the Prince's relationship with Mabel, a tall, leggy, attractive blonde, effectively squashed those rumours once and for all.
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There were four of us squashed up against each other on the seat.
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Ostrich feathers enveloped everything, covering the abbreviated bolero jackets, squashed between two gauzy layers of tulle on the second-skin gowns and sprouting from the hips or haunches of catsuits in racy black lace.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
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Trinity was becoming claustrophobic as she was squashed between the two boys.
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Across the street is the Parral Cathedral, squashed into a narrow space and correspondingly disproportioned.
Chihuahua City, Pancho Villa and Parral de Hidalgo
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the squashed looking nakedness of the fledgling birds
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She felt anger rising but quickly squashed it.
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The fruit at the bottom of the box had been squashed.
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We were tightly squashed in at dinner, with very little elbow room.
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Rumours of a possible takeover of the company were soon squashed by the management.
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Wonder what he'd look like squashed in a car boot?
The Sun
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I recycle as much of my household waste as possible, kitchen waste is composted, cans are squashed flat after removing bases, drink cans, newspapers and all other clean wastepaper placed in the relevant bins.
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But on Christmas Eve we're like cattle at a mart, squashed up against each other, fighting for the bar and talking absolute rubbish.
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Although the pressures used are immense, the processing conditions are designed so that foods are not squashed and they do retain their shape.
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In the allotments, paths overgrown with nettles and docks are littered with squashed cans and chocolate wrappers between walls of rusting corrugated iron topped with barbed wire.
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The keypad is squashed at the bottom of the phone fascia, making one-handed text typing tricky.
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We were tightly squashed in at dinner, with very little elbow room.
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There were fifteen of them in the compartment, crammed and squashed for three hours since their loading from the Transit gaol.
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Breakfast in Damascus is ‘a brainburger - a whole lamb's cerebrum, poached, peppered and squashed into a bun - and a banana milkshake’.
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Lily felt squashed into her own dress, a cerise silk creation she had bought in happier times.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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Any uprising is squashed by a massive show of force, as seen in the 1959 and more recently, the 1987-1989 uprisings.
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Robert was lucky to escape with just a broken foot after being squashed against a fence by a car.
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‘Night!’ the children chorused, snuggling down on the thin straw, squashed together like sardines in a tin.
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Crisps are squashed flat in an instant.
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A female butterfly lays an egg that looks like a miniature pearl, or a squashed golf ball, or a whiskey barrel.
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The fumes of the fuel in their squashed space made it hard to breathe.
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There were fifteen of them in the compartment, crammed and squashed for three hours since their loading from the Transit gaol.
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In one bound I was across the room and had squashed it into dust.
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The fumes of the fuel in their squashed space made it hard to breathe.
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They were low on bakery stuff however; I got the last packet of crumpets, though they were a bit squashed but I couldn't find a single loaf of bread.
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We walked over to a paddling of ducks squashed into a little defrosted section of a frozen lake.
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There was a fourth, but it was too squashed to be much good to the mad scientist.
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They damned the no-nonsense, authoritarian government, which peremptorily squashed even the smallest perceived threat to social peace.
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Port Street is a litter of unrelated architecture and closed businesses and again proposals to inject new life are being squashed.
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It's weird to think that at any time, somewhere in the world, there are people riding through the night in aeroplanes, squashed up together in a big metal tube hurtling across the black sky, going somewhere or coming back home.
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Wonder what he'd look like squashed in a car boot?
The Sun
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We were tightly squashed in at dinner, with very little elbow room.
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It also extended the franchise for elections to all persons in the country over the age of 18, and then squashed voices of dissent.
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‘The car was completely crushed from the front, my door was squashed in and the rest of the car was folded around me,’ said Gemma.
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Keep an eye out for cuckoo spit, a globule of froth that conceals the tiny froghopper, easily squashed between thumb and finger.
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She would always think that her eldest son was absolutely perfect, for all that he had inherited the squashed nose of the Tornabuoni family and the infamous underbite of the Medici.
The Poet Prince
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The tomatoes at the bottom of the bag had been squashed.
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They forget, or do not wish to acknowledge, that in a packed meeting of party delegates after the May election there was comment, criticism and suggestions as to party policy, none of which were squashed.
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An Independent Mind was a collection of snapshots from the lives of people around the world who have stood up to and been squashed by totalitarian governments.
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Bees have nicely rounded abdomens; syrphid flies 'bellies are so thin they look squashed.
BC Bloggers
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Anthers were dissected under a binocular microscope and pollen was gently squashed in staining solution under a coverslip.
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Maya's excitement over their dinner guest wouldn't be squashed.
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I waded through the taxi-park bedlam into a matatu, and was squashed up on all sides by strangely comforting fat hips, warm arms, moist breaths.
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A group of children noisily pushed through the crowd, so Jag flattened himself against the wall to keep from getting squashed.
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A few days later and the squashed plants have recovered, the trellis doesn't look quite so glaringly new and the clematis is about to flower.
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The fruit shop is OK, more or less, except for the albino hermaphrodite delivery person, and the awful trick all the other people who work there have of smiling so intensely their eyes get squashed shut.
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We were tightly squashed in at dinner, with very little elbow room.
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Nonwhites were squashed into the last six rows of the carriage in a press of saris, khaki suits and prepacked lunch pails.
Let The Dead Lie
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While nobody was looking, she squashed her school hat and crammed it into a wastebasket.
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I have to wonder if the builder hates plants - he cut down a beautiful almond tree that wasn't in the way of anything, and now has permanently squashed any chance of a bit of grass or anything!
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But it is a mushy concept that can be squashed into any shape you like.
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When she sends Guy off to war at the end of the first act, she projects so much youthful innocence and idealism that there's no way her happiness isn't going to be squashed by circumstance.
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I have no idea why I was suddenly badgered by the smell of those biscuits in particular, rather than, say, Garibaldi (squashed-fly biscuits) or custard creams.
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The combination of tying new cows-tails, and having a squashed thumb led to another hour's faff.
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So we have a new capitalist giant being squashed by a cartel of more established capitalist giants.
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His reading matter ranged from political biographies to thrillers, she noted, and there were sailing magazines squashed in too.
JUST BETWEEN US
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I hope that the whole idea will be squashed at this early stage, but if it goes further I will fight to keep our right to regional labelling.
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People have to go where the jobs are, and we all end up squashed into a slurb.
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Wonderful old songs, and slowly my fingers get used to playing blues scales, blue notes and the squashed sliding thirds and fifths of this old music fusing Irish, Scottish, French, African and English melodies.
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Shadwell is an overlooked part of London's East End, squashed in between Whitechapel and Wapping.
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I felt completely squashed by her sarcastic comment.
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Between each leaflet there is a nectary gland on the leaf rhachis; in 1. edulis these are large (2 to 3 mm) and squashed transversely, an important character for identifying the species.
Chapter 8
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Many others enjoy the tonic of deep and peaceful slumber when not squashed under the duvet with their partner.
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The cane when brought from the field is placed between two heavy rollers, worked by steam, and the juice falls into a conductor below -- the squashed cane being carried away to dry for fuel -- whence it is raised by what is termed a "_monte jus_" into a tank above the "clarifier," which is a copper boiler, with iron jacket and steam between.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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Rear seat passengers have a decent amount of room for a car of this class, with lots of head clearance and no need to be squashed against the backs of the front seats.
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All that remains visible is something that looks like a long, squashed bud.
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He squashed his nose against the window.
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I pressed my palm over the flower and squashed it against the plain beige cardboard.
Excerpt: Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
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From there it was a further eight hours or so bumping along on the back of a truck, under a full moon, squashed up with other passengers balancing on sacks of rice.
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The Tambov revolt and other peasant disturbances were soon contained and squashed.
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Crisps are squashed flat in an instant.
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We crowd into the living room, squashed up in our common friendship.
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There are many squashed red berries on pavements, and most of these have fallen from whitebeam trees.
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As tiny, pretty mega-talent Cher Lloyd stepped on to the X Factor stage last month in shimmer foundation, squashed-spider eyelashes and over-pruned brows, only for Louis Walsh to trill, You're 16?
Slap shtick: How not to put on make-up
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The cake got a bit squashed on the way here.
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She deserves to be squashed like everyone's squashed me.
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We've got banks, people, companies, home owners all being crushed, flattened, squashed by eye-popping, innard squishing debt that's forcing the air out of the lungs of the economy to complete the anatomical metaphor.
"I would rather do the right thing and have 1 term than be mediocre and have 2."
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The stain looked like a squashed tropical insect.
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Between each leaflet there is a nectary gland on the leaf rhachis; in 1. edulis these are large (2 to 3 mm) and squashed transversely, an important character for identifying the species.
Chapter 8
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While nobody was looking, she squashed her school hat and crammed it into a wastebasket.
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They damned the no-nonsense, authoritarian government, which peremptorily squashed even the smallest perceived threat to social peace.
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Khalid, understandably enough, was of the opinion that rebellion could not be squashed.
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This is one of the main hallways, with glazed concrete walls and floors, spooky lighting and sculptural seating - big metal soccer ball shapes squashed at the top to create a seat.
The Minimalist school
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The front of Jim and Pat Fitzgerald's Mercedes was squashed when a 100 ft oak fell across the bonnet and windscreen in south Manchester.
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Wheeler himself was down on one knee, supporting the fat babu, who was wailing with a shattered leg; the frail civilian was lying asprawl, his cricket cap gone and his head just a squashed red mess.
Fiancée
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Once, in a moment of despair, he snapped his Bible shut and squashed them to a paste.
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The wage freeze squashed his hope of a raise.
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Hermione squashed this plan by pointing out that, in the unlikely event that Harry managed to learn how to operate an Aqua-Lung within the set limit of an hour, he was sure to be disqualified for breaking the International Code of Wizarding Secrecy - it was too much to hope that no Muggles would spot an Aqua-Lung zooming across the countryside to Hogwarts.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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He squashed home on the snow ground.
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Some people were trapped by a vehicle that was crushed and squashed around them, so the roof needed to be taken off.
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Their house wasn't as detached as all that, it was squashed in with a lot of semis of the same vintage.
PROSPECT HILL
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This will not be the end of uncomfortable and incorrect patent claims but this is certainly one that can be squashed and so hopefully will be.
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Robert was lucky to escape with just a broken foot after being squashed against a fence by a car.
