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Sentence count:7Posted:2018-01-10Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: squintsquintysquintingquinquintquinonequincequincyMeaning: n. a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire). v. 1. crouch down 2. draw back, as with fear or pain 3. cross one's eyes as if in strabismus. 
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1. He squinches his features sorely.
2. He squinched up his face in a look that left no doubt about his displeasure.
3. Inside four arches support the central dome with squinches rather than pendentives.
4. The oval dome over the crossing is supported on squinches and shallow pendentives.
5. Inside, the nave vaults are octagonal domical shape and the central dome is carried on pseudo-pendentives rather like squinches.
6. This is the seat of logic, analysis, verbal reasoning and the kinds of thoughts--Maybe I should just kind of squinch over a little more to the left--that you never imagine crossing Tiger Woods's mind.
7. To allow a dome to rest above a square base, either of two devices was used: the squinch (an arch in each of the corners of a square base that transforms it into an octagon ) or the pendentive.
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