458 examples of squint in sentences

" "Let's take a squint at it, partner," remarked Bluff, anxiously.

" "Will you produce them, so I may judge what they are?" "Yes, the prisident and mesilf want to get a squint at the dockymints," put in Terrence.

As he and the Ramblin' Kid came near the dingy, general merchandise establishment kept by the squint-eyed Jew from whom Parker had bought the unfortunate garment a sudden look of cunning gleamed in the eyes of Skinny.

Gold can make limping Vulcan walk upright; Make squint eyes straight, a crabbed face look smooth, Gilds copper noses, makes them look like gold; Fills age's wrinkles up, and makes a face, As old as Nestor's, look as young as Cupid's.

I only wish you could take a squint through here, and watch how he manipulates the levers, in spite of that stiff arm of his.

" "But my eyes" "They are a sort of dirty gray; but that would be nothing if you had not such an outrageous squint!"

observe &c (attend to) 457; watch &c (care) 459; see with one's own eyes; watch for &c (expect) 507; peep, peer, pry, take a peep; play at bopeep^. look full in the face, look hard at, look intently; strain one's eyes; fix the eyes upon, rivet the eyes upon; stare, gaze; pore over, gloat on; leer, ogle, glare; goggle; cock the eye, squint, gloat, look askance.

[Fallacies of vision.] N. dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight; dimsightedness &c; purblindness, lippitude^; myopia, presbyopia^; confusion of vision; astigmatism; color blindness, chromato pseudo blepsis^, Daltonism; nyctalopia^; strabismus, strabism^, squint; blearedness^, day blindness, hemeralopia^, nystagmus; xanthocyanopia^, xanthopsia

V. be dimsighted &c n.; see double; have a mote in the eye, have a mist before the eyes, have a film over the eyes; see through a prism, see through a glass darkly; wink, blink, nictitate; squint; look askant^, askant askance^; screw up the eyes, glare, glower; nictate^. dazzle, loom.

Let us hear from Squint-eyed Sausageface.

" "It doesn't make a dit of bifferenceI mean a bit of difference to me how I have my paleface cooked," said the one indicated as Squint-eyed Sausageface.

If it hadn't been for the double doors to that chamber of his, I'd have had a squint inside before this; but, somehow or other, it never seems to happen that they're both open at once.

When everybody was in suspense in consequence of the vacillating conduct of the French government, a gentleman with a determined squint, one day approached Talleyrand, and said to him, "Well, prince, how do affairs go on?"

"Often and often," said the intelligent friend who favoured me with the account, "has he supplied our family with meat when we resided at Brookwood, and the beautiful Monimia, his wife, is only slightly disfigured by an interesting squint."

I took a squint through my glass, was pretty sure who it was, and then came like mad.

You have to take a long squint, like when you're in the woods on a path that ain't been used much lately and has got blind.

Suddenly she squintedsquinted horribly; not with the familiar convergent squint which burlesque artists imitate, but with external or divergent squint of extreme near sight or unequal vision.

Suddenly she squintedsquinted horribly; not with the familiar convergent squint which burlesque artists imitate, but with external or divergent squint of extreme near sight or unequal vision.

You can dye your hair or you can wear a wig or you can paint your face; but a squint is a squint.

You can dye your hair or you can wear a wig or you can paint your face; but a squint is a squint.

"That a controllable squint is a very valuable asset to a person who wishes to avoid identification.

" "And so would most people; especially in the case of a squint of that kind.

We can all squint towards our noses, but no normal person can turn his eyes away from one another.

My impression is that the presence or absence, as the case might be, of a divergent squint would be accepted as absolute disproof of identity.

The oldest of the lot, and their undisputed leader, was a peasant boy of remarkable ugliness, squint-eyed and snub-nosed, with tufts of yellow hair always falling over his face and several teeth missing.

458 examples of  squint  in sentences