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Discover LudwigThe phrase "squashed against" is correct English.
You can use it to describe something that literally has been pressed up against something else. For example, "The dog was squashed against the fence, struggling to get free."
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We were like a fly squashed against the window".
"Everyone was squashed against the walls of the carriage, faces against the window.
He was stalked by acolytes and squashed against walls by camera crews.
"It's God's joke," replied a bystander squashed against the police barricades.
The ushers are squashed against the walls, unable to do security checks on the fans rushing past.
Her child, she learnt, had a stage 3 neuroblastoma tumour squashed against her windpipe, obstructing her breathing.
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I am a large girl in a tiny room, my head squashing against the ceiling".
We squashed ourselves against the walls, the remaining space jammed with luggage and cargo boxes.
Squashed up against Syria and Israel, its constitution delicately balancing the rights of 17 different religions, its destiny has always been at the mercy of greater Middle Eastern politics.
Just as the curve of maximum "throughput" — moving as many cars between two points on a road as efficiently as possible — reaches its peak, it abruptly falls off the cliff and is squashed flat against the baseline of the graph.
As play was going forward over the centre line I heard a shout: "Bruce, please help!" – a desperate shout from a fan squashed up against the fencing to the right of my goal as I looked at Leppings Lane terraces.
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