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How to use squelch in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb, noun

Squelch means to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force. Example: “Even the king's announcement could not squelch the rumors.”

Examples of squelch by meaning

verbTo halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.

  • Even the king's announcement could not squelch the rumors.
  • The party’s dominant right wing squelched not only Sherman’s hopes for an early convention, but may have also put the MLA out of contention for the leadership.1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC...
  • We believe that Facebook is using privacy as a pretext to squelch research that it considers inconvenient.2021 August 10, Laura Edelson, Damon McCoy, “We Research Misinformation on Facebook. It Just Disabled Our Accounts.”, in The New York...

verbTo make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.

  • The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.

verbTo walk or step through a substance such as mud.

  • The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.

nounA kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.

  • Through a process of experimentation the 'acid squelch' sound came forth, which was recorded and passed on to DJ Ron Hardy to play at his Warehouse club.1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, page 91

More sentences with squelch

  • You can feel the squelch of damp soil underfoot, the weight of a tankard in the hand.2026 January 31, Janan Ganesh, “The Hamnet wars”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry tankard
  • At present Joseph Stalin, astute, sagaciously “conservative,” has seen fit to squelch such activities.1926 November 8, “Flame but no Fire”, in Time. From the entry sagaciously
  • He had not been squelched. he had not been feased by the feigned rebuke of the Hon.1916 February, Jim Blythe, "The Corn-Cob Club", Public Service Magazine 20, H. J. Gonden, Chicago, page 48. From the entry feeze
  • First came the squelch of steps along the muddy bank.2020, Suzanne Selfors, Walker Ranson, Braver: A Wombat's Tale (ebook), Imprint, unnumbered page. From the entry wombatish
  • I acknowledge yes to Craig, and he broke squelch twice.2013, Dan Rodgers, Call Me Sergeant Rock: How a Boy Becomes a Man in Vietnam, page 238. From the entry break squelch
  • General Westmoreland used some incoming troops as a fire brigade to squelch major threats and keep the Communists off balance.1976, The Encyclopedia Americana, volume 28, page 112. From the entry fire brigade
  • You have my thanks for not closing debate in Community Voices, so that the late but thoughtful and intelligent contributions to a controversy isn't squelched.1980 December 27, Ray Olson, “Spreading The Word”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 5. From the entry troglodytic
  • He envisioned himself, before a crowded lecture hall, delivering a squelching witticism upon the head of a misgroomed, bepimpled sophomore, though he could not think of the remark offhand.2017, William Kamowski, Buckeye's Ballet, →ISBN. From the entry misgroom
  • It represents a frightening attempt to monitor all student expression of ideas in all circumstances, including to friends outside of school, and to squelch all expression of wrongthought.2014 April 27, Lydia McGrew, “The Zero Sum Game--again and again and again”, in What’s Wrong with the World. From the entry wrongthought

Meaning of squelch

  1. verb To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
  2. verb To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
  3. verb To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.

Full definition of squelch

Questions about squelch in a sentence

How do you use squelch in a sentence?
Squelch is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Even the king's announcement could not squelch the rumors.”
What is a short sentence with squelch?
“Even the king's announcement could not squelch the rumors.”
What does squelch mean?
Squelch means to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.

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