Explore Squat through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like squatting or jack. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Squat in a sentence
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Squat meaning
- Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
- Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
Synonyms of Squat
Using Squat
- The main meaning on this page is: Relatively short or low, and thick or broad. | Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
- Useful related words include: squatting, diddly-squat, doodly-squat, jack.
- In the example corpus, squat often appears in combinations such as: the squat, to squat, squat and.
Context around Squat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Squat
- In this selection, "squat" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, diddly, deep, front, farm, jack and jump stand out and add context to how "squat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include cough and squat and cough and a deep squat every time. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "squat" sits close to words such as adolescence, antetokounmpo and armament, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with squat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He said: “I suffered concussion in training whilst attempting a squat. (11 words)
Diddly Squat farm was described to be a ‘victim of its own success’. (13 words)
On the last night, Thomas snares squat lobsters from an Arran fishing boat. (13 words)
But writing in his latest Diddly Squat book, Mr Clarkson explains how running a restaurant would be "fun" as he reaches the twilight years of his life - or as he put it "as the clock ticks down to zero". (39 words)
Most politically oriented squats in Greece hold regular (usually weekly) open meetings where everyone is allowed to attend and see how work at the squat is organized and how the responsibilities are shared among the squat's team. (38 words)
Nigel Ward was trapped under the tree for 45 minutes after a large part of it snapped off, landed onto a nearby shed and crushed him in a squat position on February 18, 2022. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
She made me squat and cough and squat and cough and squat and cough.
A variation on jumping jacks, the squat jack included a deep squat every time she spread her arms above her head.
Next came a squat to a lateral raise and then a reverse lunge that then moved into a squat jump.
This was something of an unwelcome epiphany for me: watching someone do a squat does not equal doing a squat.
Important lifts for a long jumper include the back squat, front squat, power cleans and hang cleans.
Most politically oriented squats in Greece hold regular (usually weekly) open meetings where everyone is allowed to attend and see how work at the squat is organized and how the responsibilities are shared among the squat's team.
Philippine law, and society more generally, distinguishes between squatters who squat because of poverty and "professional squatters" who squat in hopes of getting a payment to leave the property.
Because Scratch gives its squat, palm-sized rounds a little longer in the oven than most, they’re sometimes char-marked in all the best ways.
But Hurts can famously squat 600lbs and concerns have been voiced about the safety of the Tush Push.
But writing in his latest Diddly Squat book, Mr Clarkson explains how running a restaurant would be "fun" as he reaches the twilight years of his life - or as he put it "as the clock ticks down to zero".
Diddly Squat farm was described to be a ‘victim of its own success’.
For the perfect squat, place your feet slightly wider than hip width, in a ‘five-to-one’ clockface position.
He said: “I suffered concussion in training whilst attempting a squat.
I can’t help but be attracted by the packaging, a pastel pink label across a squat green bottle with a gold neck foil.
If they squat long enough on some body of water and nobody boots them or challenges them they claim it as theirs.
In preparation, the couple have teamed up for a short film which sees Ms Hogan making a Diddly Squat sandwich while speeding around the Silverstone race circuit.
Jenn then did technical footwork exercises followed by an exercise where she went from kneeling to a squat while holding a weight.
Kaleb would only consider appearing on the ITV hit show if it changed locations from Australia to Diddly Squat farm.
Nigel Ward was trapped under the tree for 45 minutes after a large part of it snapped off, landed onto a nearby shed and crushed him in a squat position on February 18, 2022.
On the last night, Thomas snares squat lobsters from an Arran fishing boat.
Common combinations with squat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the squat 14×
- to squat 13×
- squat and 12×
- diddly squat 12×
- and squat 11×
- squat in 8×
- squat farm 8×
- of squat 5×
- squat while 4×
- in squat 4×