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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    On fair nights he would sleep in the park or on a truck or an empty barrel or box, and when it was rainy or cold he would stow himself upon a shelf in a ten-cent lodginghouse, or pay three cents for the privileges of a "squatter" in a tenement hallway.†  (source)
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    The squatters nodded--they knew, God knew.  (source)
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    Not far from me was a little one-roomed squatter's hut of wood, surrounded by a patch of potato garden.†  (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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