Synonym: crouch, lie low. Similar words: squatter, squaw, squad, square, squall, equate, loquat, squash. Meaning: [skwɑt /skwɒt] n. 1. exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles 2. a small worthless amount 3. the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels. v. 1. sit on one's heels 2. be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide 3. occupy (a dwelling) illegally. adj. 1. short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature 2. having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground.
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31. Not especially gracious, but squat and workmanlike, plodding with tenacity from port to port.
32. Most of them have moved off since they broke the squat.
33. The woman danced, short and squat, alone behind her closed eyes.
34. The squat cupola has fan-shaped windows, and the all-seeing eye in the centre of its ceiling suggests a certain Masonic influence.
35. Squat thrusts Start from a crouched position with your hands touching the floor at either side of your feet.
36. Meanwhile, Unix System Labs has negotiated a Unix showcase area squat at the front door of the conference centre.
37. Others squat on the branches of forest trees with their roots dangling beneath them in the humid air.
38. The floor is only ten inches square so you can't sit down or squat in it.
39. The only other furniture was an old chest under the squat window.
40. The breakthrough was a squat we turned over on the south coast, two years back.
41. Other species have squat whorls, the whole ammonoid being so tightly rolled up as to be almost spherical.
42. The vibrant village is a place where some residents plant rows of red and pink flowers around their squat concrete houses.
43. He is still unable to squat on his haunches to examine a putt.
44. She would have liked to be nearer to the panel, but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit.
45. Dead lift Squat down with your feet just over shoulder width apart.
46. The environmental control unit was a squat concrete abutment with metal slotted vents.
47. At Puebla, the Inter-Oceanic Station of the National lines was a solid stone range with a squat central tower.
48. But a simple squat can exercise most of the muscles in the body and yet keep it in perfect balance.
49. The floor was covered in thick creamy carpet on which stood squat, natural leather chairs.
50. She looked like a tank in her bathing costume, Hoomey thought, squat and powerful and belligerent.
51. Lines of tiles shimmered in the slivers of moonlight. Chimney pots stood out in black profile like squat, ebony gargoyles.
52. Waiting for him was an army officer, squat and powerful, rocking on the soles of his paratroop boots.
53. The living was easy, and based in a squat, since Williams had abandoned his ad agency.
54. There was less interest in the crabs and squat lobsters, which I claimed as my niche and shared amicably with others.
55. Rory went back to live in London that winter, and ended up - funnily enough - living in a squat.
56. At the Kursk station, women in peasant headscarves squat on the floor selling bunches of hot tasting radishes encrusted with soil.
57. Most of the housing consists of squat, square and entirely functional brick buildings dating from the mid-1930s.
58. His early years there were spent in a squat with an extended family of cartoon sociopaths.
59. The C100 is a squat little chap on the ground.
60. More notable, however,[http://Sentencedict.com] is yet another minor variation of the squat urn.
More similar words: squatter, squaw, squad, square, squall, equate, loquat, squash, squawk, equator, aquatic, squashed, squander, squalor, squalid, square up, adequate, quatrain, equation, squabble, squandered, adequately, equatorial, inadequate, antiquated, disqualify, fair and square, inadequately, disqualified, mosque.