He passed the Bata Shoe Museum-the world's largest museum devoted to footwear, housed in another miracle of twentieth-century design: a building that looked like a slightly squashed shoebox.

His Sponge chair for Edra gets its slightly squashed look by lining a chair mold with a bit too much fabric and then pouring polyurethane foam into it.

Similarly, a photon has to expend energy entering a supervoid, but will not get all of it back upon exiting the slightly squashed potential hill.

Shaped like a slightly squashed circle and girded with granite, Baker Island has no natural harbor; visitors must jump ashore from dories that shuttle back and forth from the ferry.

Now the ambassador gazed down at the tiny face with its fuzz of black hair, noting the faint traces of the slanted eyebrows, the delicately pointed ears, the slightly squashed nose.

Stinson sniffed the air with a round, slightly squashed nose.

Instead, there was the air of a slightly squashed peacock about him.

A slightly squashed goat berry.

The vendor, who has a supple wrist, gives his cones a slightly squashed form, with precise spirals, that recalls one of the onion towers on St. Basil's Cathedral.

With great solemnity he opened the bottles and handed her one; she passed over half of her slightly squashed jam sandwiches.