Sentence examples for squinch from inspiring English sources
Sentence The word "squinch" is indeed correct and usable in written English
It is often used to describe a facial expression or gesture which is a combination of a squint and a flinch. For example, "he squinched his eyes and looked away, clearly uncomfortable."
verb
To scrunch up (one's face)
In Italy the Romanesque squinch form is either the conical type as in the church of Sant'Ambrogio at Milan or a succession of arched rings as in the 13th-century central tower of the abbey church at Chiaravalle.
The squinch served its purpose well enough and continued in use for many centuries, but it had certain weaknesses; the pendentive was one of the great architectural inventions of all time, transforming what had been mere building, where stress was counteracted by mass, into organic architecture, where thrust was compensated by thrust and strength depended on balance.
So far as is known, the squinch was first used in Persia and the pendentive in Syria.
The arched squinch that is often used in Byzantine architecture originally seems to have been developed, almost simultaneously, by the Roman builders of the late imperial period and the Sāsānians in Persia.
Islāmic architecture, borrowing from the Sāsānian precedent, makes great use of squinch forms (see pendentive).
The most important of these are near Shīrāz: the palace of Ardashīr I to the south at Fīrūzābād and a small, well-preserved palace at Sarvestān, southeast of Shīrāz, in which the rooms are roofed with domes and squinches, features often found in Sāsānian architecture.
These brick-built mosques also incorporated domes and decorated squinches (see Byzantine architecture) across the corners of the rooms.
More complex forms with niches and colonnettes are characteristic of the French Romanesque of Auvergny, as in the cathedral of Le Puy-en-Velay Puy-en-Velay Puy-en-Velay centuries); churches of southwestern France, such as Saint-Hilatee at Poitiers, use conical squinches of the Italian type.
The original title of "w h o k i l l" was "Women Who Kill," but out of deference to the sensibilities of her friends and parents she went with an impressionistic squinching of the words.
When folded up behind the wheel of a car, as he often is, on his python-hunting trips, he can never seem to get comfortable, bobbling up and down and bending at the waist, squinching his eyes and jerking his head to the side.
