Sample Sentences for
squall
(editor-reviewed)

squall as in:  a squall blew in

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    "How I envied you," she exclaimed. "To get into that water and away from this filthy ship even for a moment!" In a split second a squall darkened Nat's blue eyes. "Filthy — the Dolphin?"  (source)
    squall = storm (figuratively)
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    It came out of nowhere, a ferocious squall with swirling black clouds, pounding rain, and lightning that tore open the sky.  (source)
    squall = windy storm
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    The squall wind was in the tops of the palms and I could imagine how they looked in the night sky, thrashing against each other high over our little cay.  (source)
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    When the next squall inched along the horizon, none of them had the strength to chase it.  (source)
    squall = storm
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    It was very quiet, except for the squalling of a few of the babies.†  (source)
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    All day long the ploughmen on their prairie farms had moved to and fro in their wide level fields through the falling snow, which melted as it fell, wetting them to the skin all day, notwithstanding the frequent squalls of snow, the dripping, desolate clouds, and the muck of the furrows, black and tenacious as tar.  (source)
    squalls = sudden strong winds; or storms
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    I shambled about the field on scraggy legs, squalled for passes that never came my way.†  (source)
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    He's the loudest squaller I got.†  (source)
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    Someone was coming toward me along the bent, broken lane which led to the dormitory, a lane out of old London, ancient houses on either side leaning as though soon to tumble into it, cobblestones heaving underfoot like a bricked-over ocean squall—a figure of great height advanced down them toward me.  (source)
    squall = storm
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    I have only to look at you to remember the day you came into the world, red-faced and squalling.†  (source)
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    It was nearly full dark, and the rain spattered in squalls against my face.†  (source)
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    "Mommee ....mommee ...." the kid squalled.†  (source)
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    There's a squall coming.  (source)
    squall = windy storm
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