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How to use squish in a sentence

32 example sentences · verb, noun

Squish means to squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist). Example: “The sandwich tasted fine, even though it had got squished in his lunchbox.”

Examples of squish by meaning

verbTo squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).

  • The sandwich tasted fine, even though it had got squished in his lunchbox.
  • One landed on her nose, and she squished it before flicking it away from her finger.2008, Robert Muchamore, “Trek”, in The Sleepwalker (CHERUB; 9), London: Hodder Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 90
  • Rather than squishing everything into a tiny window, I have shown only part of my app.2012, Adam Freeman, “Responding to Layout Changes in Code”, in Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 Apps with XAML and C# (The Expert’s Voice...

verbTo be compressed or squeezed.

  • It felt amazing as it squished between my toes, cool and mushy.2013, Julia Crane, Talia Jager, chapter 7, in Broken Promise (A Between Worlds Novel; 2), [Clarksville, Tenn.]: Valknut Press, →ISBN

verbTo make the sound of something being squeezed or crushed.

  • His clothes were dripping wet and his shoes squished with every step.1957, Harvey Weiss, A Gondola for Fun, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC
  • But she did wish her shoes would stop squishing as she walked.1988, Carolyn G. Hart, “Mid-morning Monday”, in Honeymoon with Murder (A Death on Demand Mystery; 4), large print edition, Waterville, Me....
  • My socks never stop squishing and my underwear chafes.2010, Greg van Eekhout, chapter 11, in Kid vs. Squid, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 107

verbTo proceed or make one’s way (somewhere) with the sound of something being squeezed or crushed.

  • LIKE A DUCK—Soaked to the point of not caring, this waterlogged pedestrian squishes his way across a downtown street.1952 July 9, “5.60 Inches of Rain Set New Record […]”, in The Sun, final edition, volume 231, number 45, Baltimore, Md.: A. S. Abell...
  • We squished down a rutted lane, side-stepped a herd of cows, and eventually found an explanatory plaque.1961, Muriel Beadle, chapter 4, in These Ruins Are Inhabited, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50
  • About two miles up the steep hill that rises above this village, muddy water gushed through tents and small children dressed in light clothing squished around barefoot.1998 September 29, Jane Perlez, “For Kosovo Refugees, a Grim Augur of Winter”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...

nounThe sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.

  • Alex reached the bottom and Grant heard a squish as she landed in the mud on the bottom of the river.2007, Robin Parrish, chapter 38, in Fearless (The Dominion Trilogy; 2), Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 207

nounAn effect in internal combustion engines which creates sudden turbulence of the air–fuel mixture as the piston...

  • He thought that the most probable path for the movement of the fuel was similar to that shown in Fig. 21, p. 148, and that the satisfactory mixing was brought about largely by the “squish.”1934, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Proceedings, volume 128, London: […] [T]he Institution, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 155
  • The only reason which can be suggested for this high requirement is that engine N had a very small “squish” area compared with some of the other engines with a similar type of combustion chamber.1951, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers incorporating the Institute of Automobile Engineers, Automobile Division, Proceedings...
  • In new cars, the uneven combustion, and hence the knock, stems from a reduction in the "squish" area—a tiny 1-millimeter-wide space between the top of the piston and the flat edge of the combustion chamber.1994 September 25, Agis Salpukas, “Driving Smart: A Chattering Engine May Tell a Dirty Secret”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The...

nounA continuum or progression between categories that are normally considered discrete.

  • To show that a squish exists, I will cite a number of grammatical processes which work most for verbs, less for adjectives, and least for nouns.1972 April 14–16, John Robert Ross, “The Category Squish: Endstation Hauptwort”, in Papers from the Eighth Regional Meeting, Chicago...
  • This formulation suggests that we have a gradience or squish depending on two hierarchies.1976, Georgia M. Green, “Main Clause Phenomena in Subordinate Clauses”, in Language […], volume 52, Baltimore, Md.: […] Linguistic Society...
  • Thus, common count nouns will move into the title category, or at towards the titleness end of the squish.1988 winter, Allan Bell, “The British Base and the American Connection in New Zealand Media English”, in American Speech, volume 63, number...

nounA non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation with somebody one is not dating, or the object of that infatuation...

  • So she's got a squish on you.1999 November 21, [T.] <tek3@cx159572-a.elcjn1.sdca.home.com>, “A Transgendered Revolution!”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet)...
  • After feeling these concerns, I was happy to learn about squishes and queerplatonic partners (also known as zucchinis, for some reason unclear to me).2013 September 1, “The 'A' in LGBT”, in Counterpoint […], volume 35, number 1, Cambridge, Mass.: Advocates of Rational Discourse, →ISSN...
  • I am making the best of the situation because I want my squish to be happy, and I'd rather have a friendship with him than nothing at all.2014, Peter Toohey, Jealousy, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN

More sentences with squish

  • If something that heavy landed on him, he'd be squished flat as a pancake.From the entry flat as a pancake
  • “It's sleeting cats and dogs.” Jellyneck's sneakers squished as he headed for the cloakroom, ignoring the question.2015, Mary Ann Rodman, Jimmy's Stars, Usborne Publishing Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry cats and dogs
  • How ridiculous it sounded then, a word that conjured up images of urinary infections and squished buttocks.2013 May 10, Rachel Braier, “The trouser is so now in the singular world of fashion”, in The Guardian. From the entry jeggings
  • “You were both squished up inside, trapped by those flippery things.2012, Steve Cole, Astrosaurs 4 Book Set: Riddle of the Raptors. From the entry flippery
  • Nick slapped on the lid with a wet tomato saucey squish.2010, Daniel Marks, “Vermillion”, in Trisha Telep, editor, Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love, Philadelphia, Pa.: Running Press…. From the entry tomato saucey
  • Add the chicken thighs, close the bag, and squish the marinade to coat the chicken.2009, Fred Thompson, Grillin' with Gas. From the entry thigh
  • For squishing in the mud; Two great big black welly boots: Thud, thud, thud.2009, Verse for Ages. From the entry welly
  • Like bananas, muufos are for shredding, dunking, squishing into the rest of the meal.2005 October 27, Naomi Wise, “Much Ado About Muufo”, in San Diego Reader, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2025. From the entry muufo
  • I want to be a dumb little diaper critter who just wants to squish you and give you hugs!2017 December 6, @DiaperDook, Twitter. From the entry diaper critter
  • I want to make two squished quadballs, one 2 mm smaller than the other along the long axis.2016 October 16, maapfel (username), “When elongating a quadball, is it possible to predetermine the new length?”, in Autodesk community. From the entry quadball
  • Give it a gentle squish and get it in ya!2012, Ted Reader, Beerlicious: the art of grillin' & chillin', Volume I, McClelland and Stewart, page 222. From the entry get it in ya
  • In a lineup of ladies that coiled around the block at Fifth Avenue Cinemas, body parts were lifted, separated, bronzed, flattened, squished together and elongated.2008 June 4, Andrea Woo, “Sex And The City’s big night”, in Metro, Vancouver, B.C.: Metro International, page 25, column 1. From the entry banoodles

Meaning of squish

  1. verb To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
  2. verb To be compressed or squeezed.
  3. verb To make the sound of something being squeezed or crushed.

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Questions about squish in a sentence

How do you use squish in a sentence?
Squish is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The sandwich tasted fine, even though it had got squished in his lunchbox.”
What is a short sentence with squish?
“So she's got a squish on you.”
What does squish mean?
Squish means to squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).

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