squinny

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for squinny
Noun
  • Bad Boys 4: Ride or Die with a palpably slower, thicker Martin Lawrence (*collective squint) nears $300 million globally.
    Rob Marriott, VIBE.com, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Through squints, yells, and outsize reactions, Tadanobu Asano created a character whose interiority is always roiling and reaching, someone who finds life unfulfilling and doesn’t understand why this is all there is.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • To use a poker analogy, Apple has called the UK’s bluff against a glare of negative publicity.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Pasteur struggled to make out the path in the glare of sunlight bouncing off the ice.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The man lifted his gaze, a thin smirk curling over his mouth.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • From her radiant skin to her bold brows and striking gaze, Simone’s aesthetic was a reflection of her power, resilience, and artistry.
    Larry Stansbury, Essence, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In public, her tics are often met with stares and whispers — or at worst, hostile confrontations — from nearby strangers.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Faithful stares at her younger image with a hint of wistful pride.
    Debra Rae Cohen, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The impersonal, modernist thrill of watching strangers on the crowded subway has been eroded, but those strange leers have also been replaced by actual fellowship on group text chats.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
  • Director Sarah Blush and her excellent six-woman ensemble have taken note — even when Williams’s text periodically wavers or thins, Coach Coach remains a delicious showcase for their all-out commitment to every gasp-inducing revelation, ominous leer, and sudden but inevitable betrayal.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Noun
  • Elsewhere, shadow gapes invite light to flow through the property (another reference to the island’s volcanic origins).
    Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Jayne and their team also realized additional implications after studying and extrapolating the scalability ratio between their mouth gapes and cranial structures.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Squinny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squinny. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.

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