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  • noun Alternative spelling of foursquare.

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Examples

  • They were four-square railing against the liberals for not allowing bills, nominations, etc. to get to “an up and down vote”. joe from Lowell says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • A simple box of sidewalk chalk will bring out your child's inner artist and may also be used to draw those old-fashioned games like hopscotch, four-square and Tic Tac Toe.

    Darell Hammond: Back to Basics for the Holidays Darell Hammond 2011

  • Even so, the saga of the four-square farmhouse has sparked some opposition, including a lawsuit that forced the Peconic Land Trust to move the house a second time to meet the objections of a neighbor.

    Farmhouse Has New Lot in Life Josh Barbanel 2011

  • He comes down four-square against jihad and burqas and attacks on Danish cartoonists.

    What Unitarians Know (and Sam Harris Doesn't) Marilynne Robinson 2010

  • American four-square houses were built between 1890 and the 1930s and were popular across the country.

    Farmhouse Has New Lot in Life Josh Barbanel 2011

  • The white farmhouse was built in what is known as the American four-square style.

    Farmhouse Has New Lot in Life Josh Barbanel 2011

  • The idea of saving the Sagaponack four-square house arose in January 2009, when the owner of the subdivided farm went to the village architectural and historic review board to discuss the possibility of demolishing the building as well as several barns and a 19th-century cottage on the site of a farm.

    Farmhouse Has New Lot in Life Josh Barbanel 2011

  • Use an Alleluia from the Parish Book of Chant and stop with these four-square numbers that have been beat to death

    Getting from Here to There 2009

  • Eventually the land owner agreed to turn the four-square house over to the Peconic Land Trust, along with a donation to pay for the move.

    Farmhouse Has New Lot in Life Josh Barbanel 2011

  • Mr. Halsey said the four-square house was moved to a 10-acre site down the street that Ronald Lauder, the businessman and son of Est é e Lauder, had donated to the South Fork Land Foundation.

    Farmhouse Has New Lot in Life Josh Barbanel 2011

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