NOUN
- a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)
VERB
- crouch down
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draw back, as with fear or pain
she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf -
cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
The children squinted so as to scare each other
How To Use squinch In A Sentence
- I refuse to try on something like that,’ she squinched her eyes closed and made a cross with her fingers and giggled.
- You tootin 'lak a squinch-owl en kin kep comp'ny wid squinch-owls. Miss Lou
- Water washed over her like a canopy as she squinched her eyes shut.
- Bob's round features squinched up as he chided, ‘You said a potty word.’
- He squinted for a better look, and the angel squinched up her blue eyes, too.
- He didn't seem to be too keen on the idea, however, and squinched up his tiny face whenever her hand drew near.
- He squinched his eyes shut, and opened them wide, then closed them, then opened them again.
- April 22nd, 2010 at 2: 16 pm tombaker says: this weekend, as crowds converge to observe Earth Day in DC and hundreds of other cities around the US and the world, the ‘baggers will get to see what real mainstream, grassroots activism looks like. my guess is they’ll spend the weekend with their eyes squinched shut and their fingers in their ears, shouting “lalalalalalalalalalalala” as loud as they can. Think Progress » Gingrich: Tea Parties are ‘likely to end up as the militant wing of the Republican Party.’
- They experimented with devices for the reflection and refraction of light: mosaics were placed in carefully constructed squinches and pendentifs, in curved apses, in domes; even on flat surfaces, curved setting beds were employed.
- he drum of the dome, carried by the squinches, has a series of ceramic grilled windows which allow light to filter in from above.
