SQUASH in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for SQUASH, such as:

1. He hurt his back playing squash.
2. I enjoy playing tennis and squash.
3. Oh, I'm only a squashed cabbage leaf.
4. They squashed into an undersized reception room.
5. The fruit at the bottom of the box had been squashed.

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 Meanings and Examples of SQUASH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
squash
 v.  crush or squeeze something with force so that it becomes flat or soft
 n.  game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
Classic Sentence:
1  The garden with its rows of corn, bright-yellow squash, butter beans and turnips was well weeded and neatly fenced with split-oak rails.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
2  In a word, Frederick Cuvier's Sperm Whale is not a Sperm Whale, but a squash.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
3  But Connie, walking behind, had watched the wheels jolt over the wood-ruff and the bugle, and squash the little yellow cups of the creeping-jenny.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
4  I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the fine lady with me.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
5  Oh, I'm only a squashed cabbage leaf.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
6  But the flat, squashed look of the place was partly redeemed by the two fine old oaks which shaded it and a dusty- leaved magnolia, splotched with white blossoms, standing beside the front steps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  The tableau vivant remained set among the squashed bluebells, nobody proffering a word.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  If I wasn't so dependent on them I'd have squashed the student against the wall here a long time ago.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
9  As we rode up the draw, we skirted a big melon patch, and a garden where squashes and yellow cucumbers lay about on the sod.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
10  We were glad to go in and get warm by his kitchen stove and to see his squashes and Christmas melons, heaped in the storeroom for winter.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
Example Sentence:
1  Sheila won this cup in the school squash championship.
2  I enjoy playing tennis and squash.
3  He hurt his back playing squash.
4  Sue is one of the new breed of British women squash players who are making a real impact.
5  Activities available include squash, archery and swimming to name but a few.
6  The club provides a wide variety of activities including tennis, swimming and squash.
7  The King knew that he had to squash the revolt by foreign troops.
8  The fruit at the bottom of the box had been squashed.
9  We were tightly squashed in at dinner, with very little elbow room.
10  Robert was lucky to escape with just a broken foot after being squashed against a fence by a car.
11  They squashed into an undersized reception room.