How to Use squarish in a Sentence

squarish

adjective
  • The dog's nose is squarish.
  • Their tails are squarish rather than forked.
    — Ken Perrotte, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • This smaller suitcase is made with little ones in mind; its squarish shape feels just right for toddlers.
    — Jessica Booth, Parents, 15 June 2024
  • But fans of its squarish phones with its signature keyboard remain loyal to the brand.
    — Sydney Goh, CNBC, 9 May 2026
  • The delay so far was caused by the issues with the latest phones' squarish front-camera sensors.
    — PC Magazine, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Most are medium-sized and seem not only painted but built, with lots of sturdy squarish shapes inlaid in the frame.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The 21 units in the project resemble stacks of snow-white blocks with large, squarish windows framed in bleached wood.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The team plans to introduce a larger, more squarish hub as a stretch goal for this campaign, with a total of six slots on board.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Hyena prints are splayed and meaty; African wild dog prints are squarish and tidy; baboon prints look like a small human hand with an extra palm.
    — Ken Geiger, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • In its skull is a squarish motherboard, roughly the size of a slice of bread and studded with white capacitors that look like teeth.
    — Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Most of this activity is then blocked out by a big, squarish expanse of opaque color — juicy orange, lavender-gray or deep aqua.
    — Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener, Jason Farago and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Called the Touch Card, each comes with distinct notches (round, squarish, and triangular) to set each apart.
    — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The squarish mirror captured the Hudson Yards in the reflection.
    — Anna Goldwater Alexander, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The man had a squarish white beard and a dark chasia, or skullcap, and his eyes were like my father's—soft and a little sad, with the eyelids drooping at the outer corners.
    — Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2023
  • All of these new products feature more rounded designs than the squarish corners of previous Ring doorbells.
    — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The drapey creations were juxtaposed with sleek tailoring including a leather suit cinched at the waist, corset-like, and a woolen version with squarish shoulders.
    — WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Overall, the design language shifts from squarish to roundish and more curvy, presenting a silhouette closer to a human figure, at least from the front.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • One bucket arm easily visible at the storage spot lay on the ground like the trunk of a gigantic redwood, albeit one with a squarish trunk instead of a round one.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Satellite photos taken before and after show that a small, squarish building in the middle of the prison complex was demolished, its roof in splinters.
    — Susie Blann, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2022
  • The Pixel Watch is round, which some people greatly prefer to Apple's squarish approach.
    — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Bellinger’s new bats, meanwhile, look a little sleeker near the barrel to the naked eye, which may have contributed to the squarish form the wood appeared to take in the aforementioned video.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The carefully squarish, but more rectangular bag is an architectural feat with lines exalting the cannage motif.
    — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2021
  • At the Howard County Fair on Saturday morning, the weights were initially squarish slabs of metal.
    — Erin B. Logan, baltimoresun.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • One test driver described the Trooper's squarish dashboard as ugly, but the precise feel of all the controls, and the assembly quality throughout, are tops in this class.
    — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The silhouettes are gently cocooned and rounded, with squarish but unexaggerated shoulders; the waistlines nip in.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The truck's exterior design is also new, but retains the F-150's trademark squarish upright stature.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 25 June 2020
  • What emerged was an omelet of ideal and epitomic shape—straight, proudly puffed, about six and a half inches long and two and a half inches wide, with squarish ends and neither a speck nor drop of oil or liquid egg anywhere around.
    — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Satellite photos taken before and after the attack show that a small, squarish building in the middle of the Olenivka prison complex was demolished, its roof in splinters.
    — Susie Blann, ajc, 30 July 2022
  • The big change will come on the back of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, with the squarish camera panel replaced with one that stretches the full width of the phone.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The big change will come on the back of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, with the squarish camera panel replaced with one that stretches the full width of the phone.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025

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