How to Use squatter in a Sentence

squatter

noun

• Homeless squatters would use the house as a place to spend the night.
  — Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• At one point in the 1970s, the building filled up with squatters.
  — John Otis, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
• The squatters, some of whom have spent decades in the building, are still there.
  — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• The land bank shares the blame for its squatters' troubles.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 26 Apr. 2018
• When no one came to kick them off the land, more squatters showed up.
  — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2020
• In the 80s it was used to defend squatters from the police.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 7 Sep. 2017
• There were no laws to stop them; squatter’s rights ruled.
  — Longreads, 5 Feb. 2021
• Armstrong said the squatters even nearly hit one of her kids on the street.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
• By the 1970s, the room where King stayed had become home to squatters, and a tree grew out of the pool he was once photographed in.
  — Candacy Taylor, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2020
• The roofs of the houses were blown open to prevent squatters from moving in.
  — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017
• While the Dewey has been shut down, break ins and reports of squatters have been frequent.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• On the roof, a squatter everyone called Cheese performed a Nazi salute to the cops.
  — Dan Kois, Curbed, 16 Jan. 2023
• The elegant home had been taken over by a squatter — and a colony of bats.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• Alex De Bard soothes in the role of an Amsterdam squatter with whom the Youth shacks up.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• When Google Street View recorded the scene, the place was abandoned and boarded, the entrance choked with weeds, vines and squatter trees.
  — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 4 May 2018
• The siblings who inherited the 370-acre ranch want the squatters gone.
  — Jack Nicas Maria Magdalena Arréllaga, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• Swapping in butter could lead to a squatter cake with a less velvety crumb.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
• In the 1970s, as the city was hit by a financial crisis and crime soared, squatters would break into the castle and set fires.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2019
• Myers said several squatters have been known to sleep in the home since the owner, Dale Buell, died in March 2017.
  — Meagan Flynn, Houston Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
• Police say the pair were squatters in an apartment that the victim had walked into.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
• The squatters could be in place for months or years before the government took notice.
  — H.w. Brands, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
• The locked were eventually changed and the squatters removed but the nightmare wasn't over, Park said.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Most of those killed were from squatter families like hers.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• Women couldn’t own land at the time, and a male squatter tried to take title of the property, Preston said.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
• The park's bathroom stalls do not have doors to prevent drug users and squatters, according to the filing.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• The overall impression was of squatters having taken over a haunt of the rich.
  — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 5 July 2023
• The suspect was essentially a squatter in a vacant home who had the locks changed.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2021
• George is squatter, rounder, and given to wearing suits even on horseback.
  — New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021
• But for months prior, neighbors of 1316 Beverly Grove Place had raised complaints about the squatters, reportedly to no avail.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• But several attracted squatters in recent years, and in 2019 the police swooped on two that were being used as cannabis factories.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024