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Squalls in sentence

16 examples of Squalls in a sentence

As 2016 begins, there are clear signs of serious debt/default squalls on the horizon.
He could not even see the black soil before him, and only felt the immense flat horizon by the gusts of March wind, squalls as strong as on the sea, and frozen from sweeping leagues of marsh and naked earth.
The squalls were furious: they seemed to bring the death of labour, a famine which would kill many men.
And over the desert plain one heard only the moan of squalls through the broken trellises of the enclosures.
And from the extinguished village to the roaring Voreux a slow filing of shadows took place beneath the squalls, the departure of the colliers to their work, bending their shoulders and incommoded by their arms folded on their breasts, while the brick behind formed a hump on each back.
It seemed to him that he had lived years from his arrival on the pit-bank, in the midst of squalls, to those hours passed under the earth on his belly in the black passages.
Violent squalls assaulted us during the daytime.
Unshaken by these squalls, Captain Nemo stationed himself on the platform.
Hector said that pirates and other seafaring people generally lashed the rudder to something or other, and hauled in the main top-jib, during severe squalls, and thought we ought to try to do something of the kind; but I was for letting her have her head to the wind.
"And yet thine, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "ought to be used to such squalls; but mine, reared in soft cloth and fine linen, it is plain they must feel more keenly the pain of this mishap, and if it were not that I imagine—why do I say imagine?—know of a certainty that all these annoyances are very necessary accompaniments of the calling of arms, I would lay me down here to die of pure vexation."
There was even great difficulty in keeping the balloon fastened to the ground, as the squalls dashed it furiously about.
It began with showers and squalls, which succeeded each other without intermission.
There had been rain, squalls mingled with snow, hailstorms, gusts of wind, but these inclemencies did not last.
But although this winter was less cold, it was more troubled by storms and squalls; the sea besides often endangered the safety of the Chimneys.
Each delay filled him with hope, for it became more and more probable that Fogg would be obliged to remain some days at Hong Kong; and now the heavens themselves became his allies, with the gusts and squalls.
There was nothing worth beginning during these short February days - these Thursdays broken up by squalls which invariably ended, about five, in a dismal freezing downpour.