Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: squared
IPA transcription: [skw'ɛɹd]
Pronunciations of squared
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: squared
    Meaning: having been made square
Usage examples
  • He squared his shoulders and stood very erect.
  • "We certainly don't," sighed Frank Spencer; then he raised his head and squared his shoulders.
  • Clambering out he squared off for fight, but the only fight he got was another ducking in the pool.
  • horrible!" Stepan Arkadyevitch stood a few seconds alone, wiped his face, squared his chest, and walked out of the room.
  • Ransford laid down his letters again, and thrusting his hands in his pockets, squared his shoulders against the mantelpiece.
  • Buildings of huge, squared timbers flanked three sides of the inner stockades--the dining-hall, the cook-house, the bunk-house, the store, the trader's house.
  • He squared his chest, took out a cigarette, took two whiffs at it, flung it into a mother-of-pearl ashtray, and with rapid steps walked through the drawing room, and opened the other door into his wife's bedroom.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Mornington Crescent tube station, License CC BY-SA 4.0