Sentence examples for rather squat from inspiring English sources
They are well represented in the later Mesozoic Era, well into the Cretaceous Period (about 145.5 to 65.5 million years ago), by members of the genus Cycadeoidea, which had rather squat, barrel-shaped, unbranched trunks and once-pinnate compound leaves.
If the purpose in using high-collared shirts (with dickies sometimes under them) was to extend the line of the black suits — to make the models look taller — why, then, did they look short and rather squat?
Written in the final years of a very late Romanticism, these works now lie at the edge of the repertory — or rather squat there, sweatily, like five-hundred-pound gorillas — and New York can go quite a long time without hearing them.
It's a sort of panto act; she bounds on stage to entertain the grumbling New Labour squaddies in the manner of a rather squat and dour Geri Halliwell - and then suddenly hitches up her skirt to reveal bloomers of the deepest scarlet.
Success in saving the banking system as we know it may well lead to mud huts or rather squatting in bank-owned houses.
Luckily it was all paperbacks; I ran away from a rather bleak squat with red lightbulbs and purple walls.
The results provide limited support for use of stoop rather than squat technique for lifting a medium sized box from floor to knuckle height.
Rather than squat down with a placard outside the Jerusalem temple, he staged his protest within its walls, and it was a violent rather than peaceful one.
Foreigners vie for houses with the comforts of home, wanting electricity in relatively steady supply, preferring toilets that allow one to sit rather than squat.
Forced by planning rules to include social housing, the developers are erecting a separate, rather more squat building for housing association tenants.
Ford said the facilities at the Pyongyang campus "were rather spartan, squat toilets, no showers – we'd all bath together, Roman style," he explained, adding that he got used to regular saunas that are "popular with Koreans".
