Sample Sentences for
squatter
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    I told Mom she was the snootiest squatter I'd ever met, and that made her laugh.  (source)
    squatter = someone who lives in an unoccupied place without the legal right
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    Some families had no choice but to bury their dead in a courtyard or at the sheltered margin of a road, it being impossible to reach a proper graveyard, and so impromptu burial grounds grew up, one extinguished body attracting others, in much the same way that the arrival of one squatter on a disused patch of government land can give rise to an entire slum.  (source)
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    Most of the residents of Hippie Cove were, like me, summer squatters who'd come to Cordova hoping to score high-paying fishing jobs or, failing that, find work in the salmon canneries.  (source)
    squatters = people who live in an unoccupied place without the legal right
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    We didn't want to start training and run up on some homeless squatter.†  (source)
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    And we found another house on the edge of your complex, had some squatters.  (source)
    squatters = people who live in an unoccupied place without the legal right
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    Even at this distance, Harry had a funny feeling he recognised the walk of the squattest of them, who seemed to be leading the group.†  (source)
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    He was a glorified squatter, but no one knew it at the time.†  (source)
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    He describes for her the shell-blasted schools, the squatters living in roofless buildings, the beggars, the mud, the fickle electricity, but it's like describing music.  (source)
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    For various reasons I was apprehensive about accommodations, and ready to make my excuses in case they involved anything like squatter conditions or sleeping on the floor.†  (source)
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    The house was looking more and more like a place that squatters lived in, instead of what it was: a home that had been in Dad's family for three generations.  (source)
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    The second incident occurred in November, when a group of Inkatha members entered a squatter camp known as Zonkizizwe (Zulu for "the place where all nations are welcome") outside the city of Germiston, east of Johannesburg, and drove ANC people out, killing a number of them in the process.†  (source)
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    The squatters nodded--they knew, God knew.  (source)
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    The boy, like the squatter on the edge of the desert who kept the bird (Zoltan, the gunslinger re-membered abruptly, the bird's name was Zoltan), had lost his sense of time, but the fact that the man in black was closer seemed beyond doubt Not for the first time, the gunslinger wondered if the man in black was letting him catch up for some reason of his own.†  (source)
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    Celebrities had been known to pay huge sums of money to buy an avatar name they wanted from a cyber-squatter who had already reserved it.  (source)
    squatter = someone who has taken legal claim of an internet destination solely for the purpose of reselling it
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    Mostly they lay on their beds, calling to each other from their adjoining cells, sounding like drum squatters.  (source)
    squatters = a type of insect
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