Occupy (a dwelling) illegally

Usage examples of squatting.

Up and up the dreadful threat would fly, booming and echoing through all the narrow, dark and twisty flues, until it found out Barnacle, exactly as Mister Roberts had divined, squatting in some sooty nook and, if there was room enough to move his arms, a-picking of his nose.

There was Aylward squatting cross-legged in his shirt, while he scrubbed away at his chain-mail brigandine, whistling loudly the while.

He rose and walked around the brindled heifer, squatting down and squinting at her tail.

Once he was riding the Metrorail as Monkey Joethat is, dressed as a monkey and squatting on his haunches like a monkey and occasionally making noises like a monkeywhen he was busted for wearing a mask in a public place.

I ran through the hootch, slamming open the back screen door, Mai was there, squatting in the Vietnamese fashion, scrubbing at a wet flight suit with one hand.

But then I took the precaution, just in case her excitement exceeded her secret willingness to play the rules of my little game for her own masochistic benefit, of tucking the tweezers and plume into the pocket of my robe, squatting down, and taking the felt belt of my robe out and binding it fast around her right ankle, with the other end drawn round and round a metal ring set into the floor.

As we retraced our steps I glanced over my shoulder and saw him squatting on the mastaba, still as a glittering life-sized statue.

The next Mong, who had been waiting patiently, squatting with his hands bound behind him, spat in contempt and moved, into place at the edge of the ditch.

Another, squatting in the black shadows of a stalled mosso, plucked blindly at the darkness.

And when at last they reached the trench, those farthest on the left of the advancing Britishers heard a machine gun sputter suddenly before them and saw a huge lion leap over the German parados with the body of a screaming Hun soldier between his jaws and vanish into the shadows of the night, while squatting upon a traverse to their left was Tarzan of the Apes with a machine gun before him with which he was raking the length of the German trenches.

Around it were tethered scores of the wild, shaggy ponies and the interior was lit by smoky paraffin lamps and crowded with rank upon rank of squatting warriors.

Her hull rode high in the water, and the shadows of her cutched sails swept fleetly over the workmen squatting on quays or thrumming up the planks to the storehouses, humping barrels of Icelandic cod or sacks of English wool.

It rose into the air on a quintet of delicate legs on which it had been squatting.

There were so many things I had never seen: a lofty aqueduct arching over a steep valley, canals with barges being towed along them by patient horses, a great cathedral squatting amongst the little rooves of a town like a huge beast, and so much more.

First he had thought he was going to puke, then he thought he might die, then he had found himself inside one of those kaleidoscopes, then they spent forever squatting on the bed and staring at each other to the tune of some kind of sci-fi flic music, during all of which the treacherous schlong which had gotten him into this mess in the first place remained limp as the proverbial wet noodle.