squall

How To Use squall In A Sentence

• A rain squall dimmed the ward, and he closed the two nearest windows. THE OPEN DOOR
• The squall line was rapidly moving east and I had to come up with another plan quickly.
• Indifferent, insolent, squally weather put a bit of a damper on the festive and cultural activities over the bank holiday weekend.
• The squall that had blown in just as we left the mainland was now peeling spray off the whitecaps, and I was drenched.
• Most of the shipwrecks in the roadstead here are due to these south-eastern squalls.
• Conditions varied from steady 10-12 knot south-westerlies to almost dead calm, interspersed with vicious rain-squalls out of the south - typical Monsoon weather in the northern Gulf at this time of the year.
• Squall remembered that she had used Mace on Scalpel.
• As the north-easterly gradually takes control of the Northern Gulf, as is usual at this time of the year, it nevertheless features relatively light, shifting winds, interspersed with at times ferocious, front-line squalls.
• As Dr Barbara expected, their fire-damaged sloop sank in the first rain-squall. RUSHING TO PARADISE
• Last night, as strong gusts and heavy squalls hit the east coast, yachts were ripped from their moorings and more than half a million homes and businesses were left without power.