Sentence examples for as a squall from inspiring English sources

Then all hell breaks loose as a squall hits.

Before dusk along the Edge the gulls return, as white and as dense as a squall of snow.

In Mississippi, tornado warnings were posted as a squall line moved west to east and more than 6,800 power customers lacked electricity early on Monday.

Thunderstorms may line up in a series or rainband, known as a squall line.

(Far younger, too. He is often pictured by British cartoonists as a squalling baby, sometimes being pushed in a carriage by Margaret Thatcher).

Introduced as a squalling infant at the funeral of her mother, who died bearing her, Bankhead reappears a moment later as a drawling, deep-voiced, precocious 15-year-old, puffing on a cigarette and discovering that she has won a beauty contest that will take her from Alabama to New York, where she immediately wins entree to the Round Table and embarks on a lifetime of drinks, drugs and debauchery.

She is amusing in her distress, a compulsive blubber who pronounces "squalid" as if a squall were involved, which in her case it usually is.

By Christmas Eve, the parrot must have shown signs of illness: puffy eyes, a drooping head, and feathers as ruffled as if it had flown through a squall.

The taste of the ocean announces itself as a zephyr, not a squall.

But if you manage to catch a squall, as we did that Sunday afternoon in June, huddled under the eaves, it's a magnificent sight.

A WEEK after Dubai World announced its debt standstill, the financial panic seems to have disappeared as quickly as a desert squall.