| 1. | At that the squat substantial-looking mass swayed like a bough shaken by the wind. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 2. | BELLO Hold him down, girls, till I squat on him. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | But seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather coarse, broad, with squat fingers. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 4. | The door opened quietly, and he went in without saying a word to the squat misshapen figure that flattened itself into the shadow as he passed. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 5. | Krempe was a little squat man with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 6. | In an instant his strange headgear began to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | In the centre of the table there stood, as sentries to a fruit-stand which upheld a pyramid of oranges and American apples, two squat old-fashioned decanters of cut glass, one containing port and the other dark sherry. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 8. | Next the Scotchman was the place assigned to Costello, the eccentric, while at his side was seated in stolid repose the squat form of Madden. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | "Thou spirit of gravity" said I wrathfully, "do not take it too lightly Or I shall let thee squat where thou squattest, Haltfoot,--and I carried thee HIGH. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 10. | Lynch squats crosslegged on the hearthrug of matted hair, his cap back to the front. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |