How to pronounce squint
Listen to squint in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“squint” in real sentences
68 clips in the index · 7 American · 5 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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studying history with an anarchist squint.
Anarchism Research Group Loughborough · hear it here
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So I'm just going to have to squint at this.
British Library · hear it here
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If you squint, you can actually see the train track, right?
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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world with a dramatic raising of the eyebrows, and a comic squint.
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of squint. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.