How to Use square with in a Sentence

square with

phrasal verb

• The Austrian used to lurk at the edge of the square with his wife, a Vietnamese woman with long black hair.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• But there’s a sweetness about him that’s hard to square with the horrors heaped upon him as a child.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• The blue app with the cheery white bird became a foreboding black square with a white letter X.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
• That squares with some of the ways in which cats are thought to behaviorally depart from dogs.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2023
• Become a Subscriber That thought might be tough to square with bats’ recent track record.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2023
• The blue square with the stars is referred to as 'the union' on the flag and should always be displayed at the peak of the flagstaff or on the uppermost right side if hung on a wall.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 June 2023
• The nails in question were shaped into a long squares with a cutout dip in the center of the nail and painted with a bright, eye-catching thick white tip.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 2 Nov. 2023
• With a pizza cutter, cut into 1 1/2 inch squares and pierce each square with a fork — this keeps them from bubbling.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
• On the face of it, the evidence doesn't square with Andre's account of an accident.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2023
• Mars immediately runs into a square with Saturn on the 25th, which amounts to a bit of a brake slam.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2023
• Unroll a can of pizza dough out on a flat surface, and cut the dough into 36 squares with a pizza cutter.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 2 Dec. 2023
• Think about keeping the shoulder square with the rest of the body, and place a bit of tension through the shoulder blade to create some stability.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
• The federal officials seen in Musk’s video don’t square with the idea that federal troops aren’t policing the border.
  — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• That did not square with Akers’ post on Sunday on X, formerly known as Twitter.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Five paintings, all large squares with black backgrounds, acutely juxtapose life and loss.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• Earlier in the day, anyone downtown might have caught him taking a leisurely stroll around the square with Mrs. Claus before stopping for pictures in front of the toy store.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2023
• The town’s compact downtown is centered around a courthouse square with one- and two-story brick buildings and its busiest commercial district is a few blocks north of the square.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 20 Apr. 2023
• The Moto is one of the best affordable folding phones on the market, with a design that folds from a standard slab phone to a compact square with a 3.6-inch outward display.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2024
• Seeing that Dan + Shay is the show’s first coaching duo, many wondered how exactly that would square with the seating arrangement.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 30 June 2023
• The main courtyard, where so many people had been beaten and hanged, became a charming village square with a lawn, rosebushes and a music pavilion.
  — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• But also, this idea that people are abandoning cities just does not square with reality.
  — Curbed, 31 Mar. 2023
• Their pacifist convictions are tough to square with the conclusions in the prosecutor’s report.
  — Hilary Beaumont, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
• The condemnation did not remotely square with the divine questioning the film strives to represent.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• But how does that square with a restaurant where part of the mission is to be useful, to provide some common and ubiquitous meals that diners rely on for their comfort and steadfastness?
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2023
• The property is anchored by the charming Place des Oliviers, a small square with a retro food truck and two boutiques, which transforms into a lively entertainment space for live music, dancing, and drinks in the evening.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2024
• But venture capitalists tend to want big wins and fast exits, something that’s hard to square with building factories and pouring concrete.
  — Peter Guest, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2024
• Except that throwback feeling doesn’t always square with the more complex, cringeworthy aspects of race in America, then and now, that the film keeps rushing toward and backing away from in equal measure.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
• Now, how any of this squares with public adoration of flamboyant figures like Walter Mercado and Juan Gabriel is a subject for another time.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• This theory does not square with what evolutionary biologists know about the history of life-forms.
  — Jeffrey P. Townsend, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
• Cut colorful double-sided cardstock into various-size squares; using bold ink, stamp each square with a number (1 to 25).
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024