Sentence examples for squash by from inspiring English sources

SOPHIE'S SQUASH By Pat Zietlow Miller.

Early Southwest Indians began to grow corn and squash by approximately 1200 bce, but they could not produce reliable harvests until they had resolved problems arising from the region's relative aridity.

As early as 1500 bce the Maya had settled in villages and had developed an agriculture based on the cultivation of corn (maize), beans, and squash; by 600 ce cassava (sweet manioc) was also grown.

Tells of Playcon Recreation Equipment, Ltd., who built a portable glass-walled squash court for the W.P.S.A. Quotes from two books, Frank Satterthwaite's"The Three-Wall Nick&Other Angels(A Squash Biography), which was published in 1979&"The Guinness Book of Squash," by Michael Palmer, which was produced in Britain.

In November a piece from his collection — "Perceval," a life-size bronze sculpture of a draft horse pulling a cart of giant phallic-shaped squash, by Sarah Lucas — will go on view at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza at 60th Street and Fifth Avenue, by Central Park.

But after leafing through "The Compleat Squash," by Amy Goldman (Artisan, 2004), a voluptuous book whose photographs render squashes and pumpkins as agricultural haute couture, I was struck by the sheer number of little-known varieties that are hoarded, cataloged and cultivated by Cucurbita enthusiasts worldwide.

"His head squashed by a lorry".

This hope was squashed by last year's Nobel award.

He'd be swallowed by London, squashed by everywhere else.

But the idea was squashed by Tony Blair, then the prime minister.

Keynes's idea was squashed by the Americans, who stood to lose from it.