How to Use squarish in a Sentence

squarish

adjective
  • The dog's nose is squarish.
  • Tiny squarish shapes are all over the top of the headband.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 May 2022
  • The 21 units in the project resemble stacks of snow-white blocks with large, squarish windows framed in bleached wood.
    Steven Litt, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Hyena prints are splayed and meaty; African wild dog prints are squarish and tidy; baboon prints look like a small human hand with an extra palm.
    Ken Geiger, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Called the Touch Card, each comes with distinct notches (round, squarish, and triangular) to set each apart.
    Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2021
  • At the Howard County Fair on Saturday morning, the weights were initially squarish slabs of metal.
    Erin B. Logan, baltimoresun.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Most of this activity is then blocked out by a big, squarish expanse of opaque color — juicy orange, lavender-gray or deep aqua.
    Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener, Jason Farago and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The Pixel Watch is round, which some people greatly prefer to Apple's squarish approach.
    Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 6 Oct. 2022
  • One bucket arm easily visible at the storage spot lay on the ground like the trunk of a gigantic redwood, albeit one with a squarish trunk instead of a round one.
    Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Textured imagery and a potpourri of color and black and white motivated the frame, while a squarish 1.37 aspect ratio keeps the focus on the story.
    Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The Cabat is a sumptuously simple squarish leather bag—woven leather and nothing else.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Satellite photos taken before and after show that a small, squarish building in the middle of the prison complex was demolished, its roof in splinters.
    Susie Blann, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2022
  • Satellite photos taken before and after the attack show that a small, squarish building in the middle of the Olenivka prison complex was demolished, its roof in splinters.
    Susie Blann, ajc, 30 July 2022
  • The truck's exterior design is also new, but retains the F-150's trademark squarish upright stature.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 25 June 2020
  • These oversized, squarish sunglasses from Kenzo in chic black with tasteful gold hardware are easy to throw on for a casual errand but will also look sharp paired with more elegant attire.
    Nicola Fumo, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The carefully squarish, but more rectangular bag is an architectural feat with lines exalting the cannage motif.
    Allyson Portee, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Investigators later determined that fatigue cracks began to spread through the plane’s metal skin because stress was concentrated at the corners of its squarish windows.
    Tom Avril, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Loaded up with plenty of creature comforts, as well as a slick 16-valve four-cylinder engine and a five-speed manual transmission, this squarish coupe offers plenty of driving thrills at a price that, for BMW, is surprisingly affordable.
    Susan Smith Jeanes, Car and Driver, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In one respect, Willis was an old-school movie star, dependable in his trademarks: His squarish mug and gleaming brow on a poster all but guaranteed a certain wryness, a willingness to puncture the seriousness of any situation with flippant swagger.
    A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Momoa also gets to tap into his inner lunk, frequently bouncing off of Heard’s dutiful and squarish Mera or Wilson’s self-serious Orm with physical comedy or barbed comments about his (lack of) refinement.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
  • The contoured silhouettes — ranging from a rectangular tray to a spherical container and squarish canisters — are inspired by her cosmetics packaging and, surely, the smoothing effect of her shapewear.
    Diana Budds, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Bonham shares examples of unusual crystal shapes made by cooling gallium, whose squarish natural crystal structure has been used to help stabilize nuclear bombs.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2020
  • Kunsan also features several nondescript, squarish buildings, which are munitions bunkers designed to offer protection to bombs and missiles while containing an explosion if a fire detonates the weapons stored inside.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2021
  • The immersive conditions of a dark theater might be particularly necessary to appreciate the mountainous terrain where it’s set, captured in a nearly squarish 1:37 aspect ratio, aka Academy ratio, that emphasizes soaring verticals.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2022

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