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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of squint.

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Examples

  • He watched with astonishment as the orange juice poured crimson into his glass, then frowned at the label and squinted.

    Salem Falls JODI PICOULT 2001

  • We sat at the table and drew on tissues with magic markers, and then hung them in the window because they looked just like stained glass if you kind of squinted when you looked at them.

    Hanging with the Scribbler family e 2009

  • We sat at the table and drew on tissues with magic markers, and then hung them in the window because they looked just like stained glass if you kind of squinted when you looked at them.

    Archive 2009-04-01 e 2009

  • If I kind of squinted and looked sideways, I could make out the white crow perphed on the battlements, looking down.

    Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

  • The two antennas 'squinted' to view the same point on Earth.

    Space News From SpaceDaily.Com 2010

  • He held the negative up to the springtime sun and "squinted" at the image on the film / negative.

    RightWingBob.com 2009

  • Turner leaned close and squinted at the bags growing under his eyes.

    That's How It Went (rev) Martin Dodd 2011

  • I turned and looked at Yummy, her eyes squinted against the thick silvery haze of the smoke wafting up from the blunt she held.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • I squinted over the lump swelling on my cheekbone and plopped back on my bar stool.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • Leno, a social media skeptic, finally turned to me with squinted eyes and said in a conspiratorial tone, "Are you tweeting right now?"

    First lady's first tweet 2010

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