What's the difference between squalling and squally?

Squalling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squall

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.

Squally


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.
  • (a.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain.
  • (a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We made use of a laboratory paradigm which was devised to closely represent a common man-machine system process, i.e, maintaining of a road vehicle on a predetermined track when squally wind is blowing from the flank.
  • (2) By the time the final whistle was due on City's 2-0 win, the rain had abated, leaving squally clouds hovering above fans chanting: "We're Manchester City and we fight to the end."
  • (3) These are likely to be most frequent across south and west Scotland, north-west England and North Wales and will be accompanied by squally winds along with hail and thunder.
  • (4) This was such a scrappy, squally game it was obvious the first goal or moment of skill might settle it and so it proved, even though the breakthrough took 80 minutes to arrive.
  • (5) MacColl said: “Northern and western areas will probably see some thunder and hail and also snow across the hills.” He warned the weather was likely to be squally with strong winds and advised people to keep up to date with the latest forecasts.
  • (6) The direct sulfonation technique is not intended to identify specific DNA sequences; DNA-DNA hybridization with sulfonated probes has previously been described (P. Lebacq, D. Squalli, M. Duchenne, P. Poulety, and M. Johannes (1988) J. Biochem.

Words possibly related to "squalling"

Words possibly related to "squally"