Square

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"Square" in a Sentence (87 examples)

St Mark's Square in Venice is always swarming with tourists in the summer.

Thousands of people were milling around in the square.

Pepperberg can show Alex two objects (for example, a green square and a red square) and ask, "What's different?"

Could you tell me where I could go to get a square meal?

There is a statue of Nelson in Trafalgar Square.

There are many pigeons in the City Square.

Something horrible happened in the busy square.

When is the next train to Sloane Square?

Excuse me, does this train go to Washington Square?

John and Cathy have different tastes and different characters. Trying to get them together is like putting a square peg in a round hole.

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I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.

You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.

a square of glass

There are so many uses for the square, in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications.

The statue of Alexander the Seventh stands in the large square of the town.

You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square.

64 is the square of 8.

Squares cannot be easily matched by regular expressions.

he alone Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had In the brave squares of war

1818, quoted in Christopher Kelly, History of the French Revolution and of the Wars produced by that Memorable Event The French cavalry, in proof armour, repeatedly charged our squares, their cannon opening chasms; but the British infantry, though greatly diminished, were inflexible and impenetrable to the last.

The sand of the desert is sodden red,— Red with the wreck of a square that broke;— The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.

After disastrous attempts to break the Russian squares, during which, Longworth recounts, ‘the best and the bravest of the warriors fell victim to their own rashness’, the Circassians likewise changed their tactics.

Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!

Good looks are important, but good looks don't hold if he's a square.

She said: Wow! What a square! Don't you dig the scene? / Daddy Cool's playing his piano machine!

The sad sack was a sitting on a block of stone Way over in the corner weepin' all alone. The warden said, hey, buddy, don't you be no square If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair.

Enter your account number followed by a square.

An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.

2006, Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006 http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square

2007, Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares of living space plus over 13 squares of decking area on 3 sides and 17 squares of garage and workshop downstairs.

Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.

1594-1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie They of Galatia [were] much more out of square.

I have not kept my square.

We live not on the square with such as these.

She wanna talk about feelings But I don't believe in love Just give me your square

I don’t really care about them man there Tell the bad b “just swing your square

Get on your knees and suck this dick Get on your knees and slop this quick Bro knows I could never put trust in a bitch (Never) Me and Tz like Lilo ’n Stitch So don’t hesitate to swing me your shit Yeah, swing your square

The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].

a square corner

Take care to make the cut completely square to the edges of the wire to give a good butt join for the ends of the wire.

A September video from the TikTok user syrianpsycho, who promotes softmaxxing to his 1.2 million followers, bemoans the experience of going to restaurant while “mewing” (a technique that involves placing the tongue on the roof of the mouth, which Looksmaxxers believe makes the jaw grow squarer and stronger) and “starvemaxxing” (the Looksmaxxers’ term for extreme fasting).

The foundation has to be level and the framing has to be square.

The stacks had to be neat and square or the old guy grumbled and insisted on getting it just so.

A floor that measures 4 feet square has an area of 16 square feet.

square mile

It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm² or square millimetre), cc (for either cm³ or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second).

I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.

square dealing

Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?

I believe you're a good, square man

I am not very good at analysing things, but I felt that she talked a little uncomfortably and with a suspicion of effort, smiled rather conventionally, and was obviously glad to go. These things seem trifling enough to repeat, but I had throughout the faint feeling that everything was not square.

By the confident tone in her voice, you can tell she is square with that.

" […] I will never act on it, but if you're satisfied with the way things are then I am, too. […] So, are we square?”

to make or leave the accounts square

The sides were square at the end of the half.

The teams were square while at even strength. have to play better than even if we want to win games." said Montreal goalie Jose Theodore

But the Jays were square again by the end of the inning, as Myers hit a 2-and-0 pitch into the left-center field seats

The sides were square to the 14th hole when Goosen took birdie,

In each of the last three afternoon foursomes, the Americans were square through 15, but could only come in with two halves and a loss.

It was a square town, but that didn't bother me. I knew I didn't have to live a square life.

The square Johns lie more than the in-guys do.

It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.

By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say.

It is obvious two o'clock will arrive in about five and a half hours from now, and I presume every gentleman in the House would like to get a square breakfast.

If some of you who read this paragraph would quit scheming and get down to honest, square effort this year, your creditors would get their due and your families would be better kept.

"Sarah," said her grandmother. "You should eat a good square meal."

I said that because I didn't want any knives involved, and if Wizzie agreed to a square go now, with half the school listening, she couldn't go back on it.

a man of a square frame

Staash tipped up the rim of his hat and looked me square in the eyes as the cigarette dangled from his lips.

The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.

to square the yards

John can square this question up for us.

These results just don't square with what we expected.

[…] the process theist may not regard the killing of non-human animals for food or other reasons as generally acceptable. Call the process thinker who regards the killing of non-human animals for food as (usually) morally wrong a zoophile. Even if the zoophile regards human beings as more capable of experience and insight than another animals, and as therefore more valuable than other animals, she may regard non-human animals as moral patients. She may well not regard predatory animals as full moral agents; she will then have no reason to see their killing of other animals for food as itself morally wrong, because predators are not themselves subject to moral assessments. But she may still find it difficult to square God's encouragement of predation with an attractive account of divine goodness.

I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.

to square our actions by the opinions of others

Square my trial To my proportioned strength.

square the circle

First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.

No works shall find acceptance […] that square not truly with the Scripture plan.

Are you such fools / To square for this?

There we stood, well squared up before it, shoulder to shoulder, and foot to foot, with our hands behind us, not budging an inch.

A stately pallace built of squared bricke, Which cunningly was without morter laid

to square mason's work

Everything on his writing desk was squared off: blotter, paper knife, pen rack.

to square the general sex By Cressid's rule

the icy Goat, the Crab that square the Scales

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