What's the difference between squall and squallish?

Squall


Definition:

  • (n.) A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.
  • (v. i.) To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.
  • (n.) A loud scream; a harsh cry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It all amounts to increasing uncertainty at Leeds, the latest squall on their voyage through choppy waters.
  • (2) They could have gone even further by including some real Lerwick accents, which sound exactly like someone reading an Ikea stock inventory in the middle of a squall, but they didn't.
  • (3) Violent storms brought torrential rain, squalls and giant hail on the 28th.
  • (4) Every spring, parents plant their dolled-up (and often squalling) toddlers in the sparse patches of fire ant-infested Blue Bonnets that grow along the side of the busiest Texas highways and snap a photo.
  • (5) When Miliband mentioned these talks on TV the next day, a squall broke in No 10 as staff contemplated another Lib Dem rebellion.
  • (6) The room is shaking from a squall of heavy, crunching rock and balding members of the crowd are playing air-slap bass with their eyes closed.
  • (7) Mikkelson’s home, tucked in the San Fernando valley hills, is an incongruous base to referee the world’s brawling, squalling system of interconnected computer networks.
  • (8) In common with so many of the unpleasant episodes involving angry young men in modern London, it was a squall about reputation and respect.
  • (9) A squall that had appeared at two French investment funds exposed to US sub-prime loans was about to develop into a hurricane.
  • (10) Settlers would have disliked the squall of a fight.
  • (11) In all this squall there are worrying portents here of the way that the abortion debate in the US has been hijacked by hardliners who want to take away a woman's right to abortion.
  • (12) If Paterson had taken over a leaky ship in a squall, he had now managed to steer it into a force 10 storm.
  • (13) There was a period in the mid-90s when his career seemed to be in decline; after the huge success of Thelma & Louise in 1991 there was a run of box-office disappointments - 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), White Squall (1996) and GI Jane (1997).
  • (14) I’m proud of that.” Julia said she was surprised at the results coming out of Atlantic Canada – the first squalls in the coming storm.
  • (15) The book has caused, if not a major storm, then at least enough of a squall to ruin a picnic.
  • (16) Going by last week's squalls, what has replaced it is a giant scrap about who should lose most: OAPs or the young, the super-rich or welfare claimants.
  • (17) The scandal which surrounded the publication of his third novel, The City and the Pillar, created a squall powerful enough to blow Vidal's promising literary career definitively off course.
  • (18) Should Trump ride out the storm – and he has flourished in the squalls he has stirred up so far – the question will have to be asked.

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