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    1. It was a typical small town Garda station; a low squat building with a couple of aged squad cars parked badly outside


    2. Danton stood in the middle of the room and looked down at the squat figure by the


    3. Danton stood in the middle of the room and looked down at the squat figure by the wall, finding it extremely hard to deal with the situation


    4. To one side, they could see a squat tower of grey-


    5. further along the coast, until the squat tower of the semaphore station


    6. Now they were supposed to use the squat position from the sanding chore, but with a heavy towel grasped in both hands in front of them


    7. With their feet just wider than shoulder width apart, they raised the lever poles of the diggers, straightening their arms above their heads and in a single motion: both lowered their hands and with straight backs, lowered themselves by dropping into a very controlled near squat, almost a horse stance


    8. The second person is short and squat, balding, with a neck built for breaking noses


    9. It was a smallish town; a newish housing estate became a huddle of older dwellings and then two streets with shops, a squat church complete with graveyard and the all important bus station


    10. He stops walking forwards a metre away from the short, squat Scottish gangster and slowly moves his hands behind his back, as if he is about to stand at ease

    11. The Temple was wooden and squat, built wide, though short, to accommodate the followers of the popular goddess


    12. The house sat squat in the middle of a forested area with the outline of a path going down to river


    13. She shifted round into a squat, her other hand on her sex still moving too hungrily, too urgently, but eventually slowing down


    14. because they sit in the maze and hawk their shit, it doesn’t mean they know squat about the rest of


    15. Slowly, William backtracked on the remaining ledge behind him until he stood on a section wide enough to actually squat down on bent knee


    16. The figure took a step forward, revealing himself to be a squat, short, fat old little fellow wearing a farmer’s overall and a pair of boots twice his normal size


    17. Skinny backed the newcomer into the corner, made him squat and tied his hands to the rail above his head


    18. My reflection, however, looks small and squat


    19. The painted shaman signaled a squat little man who presented an array of powders and potions


    20. Just as I was about to call out, the flap opened and a short, squat young man with a huge welcoming smile urged me inside

    21. Behind the desk sat a squat man, his beady eyes glistening with


    22. but so far it had produced diddly squat


    23. here!” The Shuttle turned and coasted up to a small squat building


    24. gathered around a central squat building that looked like a


    25. up on squat cement stilts


    26. In one corner of the room a squat wood


    27. as they had driven closer to the huge, squat, unattractive building


    28. they came across a squat single story brick building


    29. Her Illusion showed a squat round tower with a domed roof, with four smaller half-towers capped by hemispheres attached equidistantly around the outside of the main tower


    30. was short and squat, had terrible acne scars, a full set

    31. And after, very long after it seemed, the halting, swaying, stumbling line came into sight of two squat images shimmering miragelike in the distance


    32. On the far side could be seen the squat form of mud-brick storage buildings


    33. The granaries all appeared rather square, squat, and solidly built with no openings to accent


    34. The other group was busily removing grain from the small squat storehouses as Youssaf's


    35. far side could be seen the squat form of mud-brick storage buildings


    36. Square and squat


    37. Once in a while one of them would come by and squat


    38. squat rack gathers dust in the corner


    39. Sometimes I felt so hopeless I could only squat on the ground and wish someone would hit me on the head and put me out of my misery


    40. Squat toilets like ours, and water washing, in Europe they use a bidet, are the most hygienic methods for maintaining cleanliness of your nether regions

    41. With no time to squat or lie on the ground, not that anyone wanted to risk lying on an ant nest, they slipped behind narrow trunks, brushwood stands, clumps of tall grass, and froze


    42. ‘Fifty for that bitch in the squat, then there’s the repairs for the bike, then…’ she looked up


    43. Sitting was not the position Jarek wanted to be in—he needed to squat, so while Zeno was being hauled up he managed to stand and lean against the wall, head throbbing, eyes watering, cold anger stirring his guts


    44. He dropped to a squat and rolled sideways


    45. At the end of the dock was a squat fisherman in a green tunic swinging his legs over the languid water


    46. The squat fisherman eyed the pink boat charily, dry-wringing his hands on his pole


    47. Without moving a muscle the squat fisherman’s eyes followed them


    48. Between the ramparts three squat, bald fishermen in green tunics sat staring at the Dangler


    49. All three of the squat fisherman went red in the face, a mass of jowls quivering with indignation


    50. If they had been angry before at the Dangler’s intrusion, the squat fishermen were livid now













































    1. I’m unhappily married to a freeloading spider who just squats around the web doing nothing but waste his precious energy and cost me precious sleep


    2. The chain fixed to my wrist was a problem, but I found that I could do basic press-ups and squats


    3. The boy looks at him, then grinning with what I am now realising is the family expression, dashes over to his uncle, who squats down to his level


    4. She is too thin to be healthy, a sign of the times, of squats, drugs and the occasional meal


    5. Back Foot Elevated Split Squats – blast your quads with this move


    6. The law was written to offer poor people an opportunity to claim unused land by extending legal rights, that can eventually lead to outright ownership to an individual who squats on a property for as little as three months


    7. squats, unable to mask his excitement as he thought about his


    8. squats then chin up’s


    9. prisoner squats because of their popularity behind bars


    10. After the thousand squats Sam would spend fifteen minutes working the clubs, another fifteen minutes swinging the Turkish bow and then run five miles

    11. He takes me to his office and puts me down on a chair, where he squats down in front of me


    12. SquatsSquats work the butt, the hamstring muscles and the quadriceps


    13. And even though he squats next to me,


    14. He leans his back up against a wall and squats


    15. Squats – Standing up with your feet about a foot apart and toes


    16. Focus your attention on using large movements that create the best responses, like squats, deadlifts, dips, pul -ups, shoulder press and rows


    17. Officer Remmit squats and offers me two packets of liquid


    18. Start the workout with 2 sets of squats and then move on to leg presses


    19. squats, stabilization can become a problem


    20. While squats and leg presses

    21. 1 set of squats will result in higher levels of anabolic hormones than a set of barbell


    22. However, believing that doing squats has an overspill effect to the rest of your body and will produce large biceps and calves just isn’t the case


    23. He squats at my feet, removes my shoe, cleans my foot, and then takes my shoe to the bathroom to rinse it under the sink


    24. HORSE SQUATS FOR LEGS COMBINE AS ABOVE FOR SHOULDERS OR JUST SQUATS IF TO HARD


    25. Lynch squats crosslegged on the hearthrug of matted hair, his cap back to the front


    1. He squatted down next to the young man so as not to be overheard


    2. I squatted on a thin mattress on the floor of a small, underground room


    3. When the door to my cell opened and he squatted down in front of me I had assumed that he was as nonchalant about all of this as he looked


    4. He squatted with his back against the far corridor wall and watched me through the open door


    5. I squatted down, still brushing like mad, wild eyed and humming loudly


    6. I squatted on the pillion and couldn't get any wetter, so I relaxed into the rain like you relax into the sea, and right away felt much better, calmer


    7. He squatted there, trembling from the tip of his jet-


    8. As she squatted down awkwardly with her head in


    9. Then he placed each girl at opposite corners of the deck, and like Harry's 'frog work' in the gardens, they squatted and made large circular patterns with the blocks over the deck's surface


    10. Thoroughly pissed off, he shucked off his back pack and squatted down on it to wait for sunrise

    11. He squatted next to Harry and began laying the rest of the floor with him side by side


    12. Roman squatted slightly, flexed his shoulders forward and backed into the


    13. The cat squatted down, snarling and spitting


    14. She squatted in front of the fridge,


    15. On it, a small, one man, sloppy tent squatted next


    16. They were huddled in thousands in El Caney; every house was so crowded that none could lie down, but squatted on the floors of the rooms and on the piazzas, unable to move


    17. Remembering Beth’s description of a sunbeam passing through the hole in his ear, Truman squatted beside their blanket


    18. on the floor and squatted beside it


    19. Now, in the shadows of one of those empty sockets, he was watching the slow passage of events and squirming to find, for the long hours ahead, reasonable comfort while squatted precariously atop an unstable stack of charred wood


    20. Raul was there too, backed into the corner between gunwale and wheelhouse, squatted, his hands tied above his head to the rail

    21. “Edgar! Thank God!” the man squatted in the corner cried out


    22. “You’re a cop?” Truman asked with incredulity of the man squatted across the deck while struggling to loosen the bindings on his wrists


    23. He squatted right next to her


    24. She squatted down and retrieved a few that had fallen out of opened husks


    25. She jumped when Laino suddenly squatted in front of her


    26. He squatted in front of her


    27. They squatted down by the waiting and quickly told in a whisper what had happened


    28. Gawavolf squatted in front of her and held her chin with one hand


    29. He ran to the creek that was a few meters away, and squatted


    30. He still held her hands and her gaze and slowly he followed until he squatted in front of her

    31. Ryota squatted on a rock as he fed some more bait onto a hook


    32. Erica was squatted scratching the number four in the dirt with her finger


    33. “Terry was bent over and Jo-Jo squatted down near his face, so I couldn’t hear what they were saying,” she said


    34. ” He squatted down in front of her


    35. He smiled broadly and squatted down by our fire


    36. He finished by touching a match to an oil lamp that squatted on an oak desk covered with open books and papers


    37. They squatted down on the ground and a jagun remained in formation within easy reach of them


    38. around, and squatted down on top of my staff


    39. of bums and winos who had squatted in the big Plasti-board hovels


    40. squatted behind one piece of the junk and used that corner as a

    41. “What’s on your mind, Moshe?” asked Youssaf, as Moshe’s crew and Korah squatted with him on the sand in an ad hoc council circle


    42. Spears squatted, Nung style, and began to brief, using the field map he unfolded


    43. The Doc squatted back and clamped his fingers on Higgens' wrist to search for a pulse


    44. “What's on your mind, Moshe?” asked Youssaf, as Moshe's crew and Korah squatted with him


    45. The vendors, mainly women dressed in thin black trousers and white blouses, squatted on mats next to their wares patiently waiting for the sales they knew would come


    46. They both squatted, Vietnamese peasant style, with their backs against a wall


    47. squatted to look through the thick leaves and saw a few of them


    48. rail and squatted to the ground, facing us, apparently at his wits


    49. The Creature was squatted beside a small pool where the


    50. than it had ever been, it squatted to the ground for a fraction of a













































    1. Squatting behind the bush, I realise that Berndt’s advice was probably extremely sensible


    2. Sheila was squatting on her haunches as close as she could get to where Mickey and Kev were digging, muttering something to Mickey


    3. They were to lower and raise the materials using almost their legs alone, essentially more squatting and horse-stance exercise


    4. He shifts so that he is squatting down by Ted's side


    5. “Then with a steady grasp of the wagon in your hands, hop with both feet into the same squatting position you began, with your knees deeply bent


    6. Squatting like two British bullfrogs, they sanded


    7. He then wrapped her arm around his and escorted her back to the table, where she slide in behind Mike and he then turned a chair around squatting on it to stare into Mike's red face to say, "I like to dance with those women that don't dance


    8. His legs crossed and his tiny red rump buried in hair, the imp Galimoto was comfortably squatting on Tetloan's head


    9. A kerosene lantern squatting on a desk provided dim illumination


    10. He turned indignantly to expostulate, but a muscular sergeant added insult to injury, by seizing a stool and squatting him forcibly down upon it

    11. Squatting down to be sick had probably saved Terry’s life


    12. White colonists worsened conditions by squatting on reservation land, farming, logging, or hunting illegally


    13. squatting and urinating, and the buck will place his nose in her urine


    14. The squatting man too fought to free himself, twisting his head upwards to bite at his knots and offered no answer, stopping his chewing only to smile broadly in Truman’s direction then resumed working the rope with his teeth


    15. She hadn’t had a shower, dinner, breakfast or sleep, and she had had to relieve herself like a dog, squatting between rocks


    16. Jeannine was in a squatting position with her hands over her ears, and her eyes closed


    17. It sat under the trees like a Monet, like a lily pad under rain, like a painter squatting under an arbor


    18. said, reworking things so that I was squatting over him, facing away, his hard staff sliding


    19. could see her great grandfather squatting on the ground


    20. An old, hunched over man had found a stool by the corner and was squatting over it

    21. Bald Headed Man was squatting down, holding out his hand to a black and white cat that was sitting by the gate


    22. It was Yigal, squatting down among the tightly packed legs of the others


    23. Some were sitting on the ground and some were squatting


    24. They moved backwards while still squatting


    25. Sitting in the squatting, knees touching the earth-floor, as was the custom of visitation, she had been careful to position herself across the small interior from Sari


    26. It was Yigal, squatting down among the tightly


    27. Sitting in the squatting, knees touching the


    28. where it had disappeared, squatting in the grass, trying to lay


    29. The squatting to rest in the soft soil beneath the


    30. squatting down and pushing the thin log upwards as hard as I

    31. out of the skyline and squatting against a boulder, blinking to


    32. Soon came hoots of laughter and comments on our seamanship, while a youth squatting on the edge of the pier reached down one leg to kick water at us


    33. She went over by the register under the front window, squatting down to feel


    34. driver’s seat, squatting with no chance of recovering my half-butt seat


    35. I was still squatting


    36. Open doors showed bare rooms with old men sleeping on mats, women squatting over a primus, their kids playing


    37. I tried the phone, squatting in its puddle of grey slime


    38. Squatting down in the hope that a smaller man would appear less threatening, I noticed a chain hanging between his legs


    39. They were squatting directly beneath the platform; visible through the slatted floor above, when voices alerted them to approaching visitors


    40. When this failed to elicit a response she would wail wordlessly, squatting hunched on the floor, knees clutched to her chest, swaying backwards and forwards

    41. Squatting on the floor of the barracks like a Buddha master, I wrote approximately fifteen three-page letters per day


    42. He was an old man squatting on the ground with his back against a rock


    43. One, squatting on his haunches before the cringing boy, held a pipe-like thing in his hand


    44. I called—then I saw that—that black thing squatting like an ape among the branches, leering down at me


    45. There was a warrior supposed to be watching at that point, but he was squatting behind the hut and peering around the corner at the ceremony


    46. Peering down through broken branches that scraped the rock, they saw it squatting on its haunches at the foot of the crag, staring unblinkingly up at them


    47. It made a ghostly half-light, in which he was able to see a bestial image squatting on a shrine, and the black mouths of six or seven tunnels leading off from the chamber


    48. There was no phosphorus here, but the light of the torches fell on a larger altar and a more obscene and repulsive god squatting toad-like upon it


    49. Imagination reconstructs the scene—the black-haired chief, in his tiger-skins and necklace of human teeth, squatting on the dirt floor of the wattle hut, listening intently to the eloquence of the priest, who probably sat on a carven, skin-covered block of mahogany provided in his honor—clad in the silken robes of a Nemedian priest, gesturing with his slender white hands as he expounded the eternal rights and justices which were the truths of Mitra


    50. To his amazement he could visualize the captives; Martin propped against the tire, bound, with Elise sitting in front unbound and the big Miccosukee squatting between the two stirring the leaves with his war club and drinking whiskey














































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    Synonyms for "squat"

    squat squatting knee bend diddley diddly diddly-shit diddly-squat diddlyshit diddlysquat doodly-squat jack shit crouch hunker hunker down scrunch scrunch up underslung chunky dumpy low-set squatty stumpy hunch cower swat broad stocky splay scrub

    "squat" definitions

    exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles


    a small worthless amount


    the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels


    sit on one's heels


    be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide


    occupy (a dwelling) illegally


    short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature


    having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground