(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.