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'square' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'square' with 20 example sentences.

square noun

: (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon

: the product of two equal terms

: an open area at the meeting of two or more streets

: something approximating the shape of a square

: someone who doesn't understand what is going on

: a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views

: any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles

: a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles

square adjective

: providing abundant nourishment

: leaving no balance

: without evasion or compromise

: rigidly conventional or old-fashioned

: having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle

: characterized by honesty and fairness

square verb

: make square

: raise to the second power

: cause to match, as of ideas or acts

: position so as to be square

: be compatible with

: pay someone and settle a debt

: turn the paddle; in canoeing

: turn the oar, while rowing

square adverb

: in a straight direct way

: in a square shape

: firmly and solidly

square root square meter fair and square square mile square foot
  • A square has four angles.
  • What's the square root of 100?
  • The police have cleared the square.
  • The student answered, "The square root of 256 is sixteen."
  • They're building a new square.
  • I beat you fair and square.
  • Lucy witnessed a murder in the main square of Florence.
  • The entire square was covered with snow.
  • There were many children in the square.
  • We were back to square one.
  • The square of nine is eighty-one.
  • Our backyard is twenty meters square.
  • Your story doesn't square with the facts.
  • Look at that pole in the square.
  • We have a square table.
  • I haven't had a square meal for a week.
  • The other day, something horrible happened in the busy square.
  • The inverse of a non-square matrix is a dangerous thing.
  • He has a square jaw.
  • The square of 5 is 25.

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