How to Use squall in a Sentence

squall

noun

• There will be a squall line of storms that forms near or ahead of the cold front.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 16 Feb. 2023
• Rain from the first squall line is ending in the city and has done so most spots to the west.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
• Yet the kingdom is still trying to find its way out of the squall.
  — The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
• The dust was churned up by a snowy squall that moved through Mongolia over the weekend.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
• For those already on the road, the weather service says to reduce speed while the squall hits.
  — Victoria Albert, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2023
• Snow hurled sideways at us, my driver’s tie flapping in the squall, his bare forearms braced against the cold.
  — Hazlitt, 12 July 2023
• Us dads happily sat down to wait out the squall and rejoice at our oddly good luck.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
• The record temperatures came as other parts of the state dealt with severe storms and strong winds as a squall line moved through.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 3 Mar. 2023
• An air tanker dropped chemical retardant, a great red squall that shook the ground.
  — ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2024
• There is expected to be a squall line of storms that pushes from west to east across the state starting late Friday.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 22 Mar. 2023
• During the rescue attempt, as the rescue crew was hoisting a cruise ship nurse, a severe squall forced the crew to move the Jayhawk away from the ship.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 3 May 2023
• The squall was expected to cut visibility to 1/4 of a mile or less.
  — Aaron Falk, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
• The rainy season might debut sometime in June with a teasing rain or a fast-moving squall that tears across the country and turns the sand into mud.
  — Jori Lewis, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2017
• Benepe, his hat sent flying, turned into the squall, holding aloft a middle finger.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• Savage used to rap in that same vein-popping squall popular in mid-2010s Atlanta hip-hop.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
• The road was already covered with snow prior to the squall and the pileup , making driving conditions even worse.
  — Cady Stanton, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022
• However, the severe weather risk has ended in places behind the main squall.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
• Close said that stronger storms and squall lines — groups of storms that track in a line with intense winds and heavy rain — are more common during the winter around Florida.
  — Isabella O'Malley, ajc, 27 June 2023
• The contentious evening was the latest squall in an ongoing culture war that has festered in the district’s school system.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
• Then a late-afternoon squall blew across the surrounding peaks, rushing sightseers back to their cars.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• Supercell tornadoes tend to be longer-lived, while those pawned by squall lines and bow echoes may only last for a few minutes.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2024
• The earth has been and is a heaving platform for human affairs, as unstable as a ship’s deck in a violent squall.
  — Jacques Leslie, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022
• Rain and golf go hand-in-hand; even the most prepared loopers get caught sometimes in an unexpected and unwelcome squall on the back nine.
  — Red Fabbri, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
• Today’s winter storm hazards will include heavy snow squalls, with 12 to 24 inches of snow slated for the Lake Tahoe area and Yosemite Village.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023
• By evening, some of the storms south of Interstate 80 in Nebraska had merged into a bowing squall line with damaging winds.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 June 2022
• The weather comes as part of a powerful squall line sweeps across the Southeast, bringing damaging winds, coastal flooding and heavy rainfall all night.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2024
• Later, our captain, Jason Ward, dodged a series of afternoon squalls to reach Lameshur Bay, on the island’s southern shore.
  — Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2023
• Records indicate a whaling ship of that size was abandoned during a squall near the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1835, the scientists said.
  — al, 28 Feb. 2022
• The squall eventually rolled east as a cadre of us rolled along swirling Highway 134, a tiny two-lane stretch that ascended to Toponas flanked by lines of tall and shedding aspens.
  — Bill Roberson, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2022
• Portland area forecasters are sounding the alarms that the impending snow and ice storm may not be our typical winter squall.
  — oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024