squall
IPA: skwˈɔɫ
noun
- (often nautical) A sudden storm, as found in a squall line.
- (meteorology) A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line.
- A loud cry or wail.
verb
- To cry or wail loudly.
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Examples of "squall" in Sentences
- There was a big squall in the town.
- Squall did NOT die at the end of the game.
- In the East Indies, brubu is a name for a squall.
- This "little squall" is far from being put to bed,
- Lake effect snows can be in the form of a snow squall.
- They are more dangerous than what we call a squall line.
- It won't be long before that squall is drenching things.
- It is the most damaging squall line ever recorded in Cuba.
- But then the clouds thickened and a cold rain squall moved in.
- There was a heavy squall at the time and at the scene of the accident.
- The pair fall asleep in their boat and are violently awoken by a squall.
- A squall blew up and the yachts ran aground on the treacherous quicksands.
- Maybe it will take a squall to bring the proper attention on the situation.
- The trailing convergence zone was referred to as the squall line or cold front.
- When you hear the word squall line, you can get some wind damage and probably some hail.
- As he smoked he watched the abrupt misting of the stars by a rain - squall that made to windward or to where windward might vaguely be configured.
- The wind shifted back and forth between southeast and northeast, and at midnight the Pyrenees was caught aback by a sharp squall from the southwest, from which point the wind continued to blow intermittently.
- Guitar-based indie-rock holds the plurality, of course: retro shoegazer guitar squall from the Twilight Sad, British-flavored mope-rock — tinged with emo loquacity — from Voxtrot, the dazed slide-guitar lines of Beach House.