(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.
Tempest
Definition:
(n.) An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
(n.) Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
(n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
(v. t.) To disturb as by a tempest.
(v. i.) To storm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whatever conclusion the crowd might have drawn, what's striking is that Tempest's poem couldn't be ignored: the conviction and drama of her performance forced a reaction and coloured the rest of the evening.
(2) More than once, she replies to a question by wrinkling her nose and saying: “It’s all in the book.” Tempest can’t quite see why the breadth of her output – songs, poems, plays, a novel – is notable, because it’s all about writing and performance.
(3) He has a fixation with islands (Cyprus, Sicily, The Tempest 's nameless "isle").
(4) At the time, Dimon publicly dismissed the concerns about the trading activities, calling them a "complete tempest in a teapot".
(5) The work won the Ted Hughes award even without Tempest's charismatic live delivery – the judges heard a recorded version but were still unanimous in their decision.
(6) The weather had Shakespearean timing but this was a tempest not just for the police, whose militarised response affronted worldwide opinion, or their political masters, but for local and national black leaders.
(7) If you say, ‘This is Kate Tempest and she’s a poet-rapper-playwright,’ it sounds confusing and ridiculous and a bit naff.
(8) And like Caliban in The Tempest, his profit from this British education is that he knows the British language well enough and uses it to curse them.
(9) The only thing that was weird was being a girl, I suppose, but I’ve kind of made my peace with that.” But British hip-hop was a crowded field and Tempest couldn’t get a record deal.
(10) Tempest's piece follows these conventions, but transcends them.
(11) In Hall’s farewell season of Shakespeare’s late romances in 1988, he led the company alongside Michael Bryant and Eileen Atkins , playing a clenched and possessed Leontes in The Winter’s Tale; an Italianate, jesting Iachimo in Cymbeline; and a gloriously drunken Trinculo in The Tempest (he played Prospero for Adrian Noble at the Theatre Royal, Bath, in 2012).
(12) It’s a direct response to south London.” Around the time of the G8 summit at Gleneagles in 2005, Tempest had an intensely political phase.
(13) While addressing Britain’s parliament in 2015 Xi quoted Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
(14) The common thread through Tempest's diverse work is her love of words.
(15) It was the Poetry Society that awarded Tempest the Ted Hughes poetry prize in 2013 for Brand New Ancients, a narrative work that told a tale of everyday heroics, false gods and fierce hopes in modern-day London over tuba, violin, drums, electronics.
(16) Kate Tempest – one of the few well-known poets to have performed at Glastonbury and with grime MCs – has pipped six others to win the Ted Hughes award for innovation in poetry.
(17) Dimon, president and chief operating officer of JP Morgan, had initially dismissed talks of the "London whale" and mounting losses at the bank as a tempest in a teapot.
(18) René Brunel, who wrote about the Aissawa in the 1920s, described his experience of 'the furious tempest of drums and oboes', saying the spectators were 'in the grip of the terrifying staccato music seized by this contagious madness and ecstatic frenzy which none can resist'.
(19) Ongoing tempest For all his smooth talking, it is likely that the most memorable line to emerge from the career of JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon will be his crack about a "tempest in a teapot".
(20) Meteorites, The Universe, Road to the Stars, Planet of Tempests, The Moon, et al.