SQUARE in a Sentence

Learn SQUARE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
257 example sentences for SQUARE, such as:
1. He had a firm, square jaw.
2. The rooms are all very square.
3. I am square on the bottom, I am.
4. He laid the square table with a tablecloth.
5. Your statement doesn't square with the facts.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SQUARE
square
 v.  raise to the second power
 v.  turn the oar, while rowing
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)
1  He looked at the ugly square buildings around him, and he did not like what he saw.
2  He was very true, genuinely square in his relations to those about him.
3  The rooms are all very square.
4  There was a square with trees and grass in it in the center of the city.
5  A square has four corners; a cube has eight.
6  His finger nails were square and cut neatly across.
7  He had a firm, square jaw.
8  They haven't had a square meal for four or five days.
9  He is the proverbial square peg in a round hole.
10  I've declined the invitation to the Royal Garden Party; I'd just to be a square peg in a round hole among all those posh people.
11  They've booked us into the hotel in the main square.
12  People say that a strong square jaw is a sign of firm.
13  Your statement doesn't square with the facts.
14  Tell the children to stay out of the square while people are holding a mass rally.
15  He laid the square table with a tablecloth.