SQUARE in a Sentence

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257 example sentences for SQUARE, such as:

1. I am square on the bottom, I am.
2. Your theory doesn't square with the known facts.
3. She could not square the request with her principles.
4. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep on a stone bench.
5. I've been so busy I haven't had a square meal in three days.

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 Meanings and Examples of SQUARE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
square
 n.  a flat shape with four sides of equal length and four right angles
 n.  result of multiplying a number by itself
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated chairs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
2  These alleys left behind them four square plots rimmed with box.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
3  The door of the dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door of a prison.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
4  I am square on the bottom, I am.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
5  At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
6  Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep on a stone bench.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
7  Paer, the author of Agnese, a good sort of fellow, with a square face and a wart on his cheek, directed the little private concerts of the Marquise de Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Eveque.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
8  As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed in red, who was holding forth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
9  Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
10  When they arrived on the grand square, however, the man pointed out to him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy building.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
11  Three walls, part stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
12  There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
13  He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the declivities, scrutinized the clumps of trees, the square of rye, the path; he seemed to be counting each bush.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LAC...
14  Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended with lightning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
15  The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Example Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
16  Your theory doesn't square with the known facts.
17  I've been so busy I haven't had a square meal in three days.
18  The two candidates will square off on this issue in a debate tomorrow.
19  He hung his mackintosh and hat on the rack in the comfortable square hall and turned to her for direction.
20  This was revoked after the scandals of the clean hands bribery scandal which caused a political earthquake at the time in a country where it had become the norm for businessmen to bribe politicians, but now it is back to square one.
21  She could not square the request with her principles.
22  Three hours she gave to stitch, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet.
23  This elegant, 19th-century chateau has a total of some 800 square meters, over 4 floors.
24  They talked it over, and they was going to rule me out, because they said every boy must have a family or somebody to kill, or else it wouldn't be fair and square for the others.
25  When we got to the cabin we took a look at the front and the two sides; and on the side I warn't acquainted with -- which was the north side -- we found a square window-hole, up tolerable high, with just one stout board nailed across it.
26  First you will need a bandanna, depending on the size of your head; we have found that a square of material about 60 cm.
27  He can tell you how to measure and calculate residential square footage.
28  Then use a combination square to determine the point where the rip line meets the crosscut line.
29  The gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
30  Hubby and I, now do our Christmas shopping on the square in Oxford and my favorite haunt is SB!