Example sentences for: squalls

How can you use “squalls” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • So, too, does drowning from accidents in the frequent winter squalls that caught sailors unaware.

  • Some drop underwater, but still the bullets come in near silence, producing squalls of blood; above the water, the din resumes with a vengeance.

  • The sagging flesh on that square head encases small, babyish features, and the belching sounds that come out of that barrel chest are like an infant's squalls after a thousand shots of bourbon and 10 times that many cigarettes.

  • Read Maureen Gosling's journals about the making of Fitzcarraldo , or Bruce Chatwin's essay on Cobra Verde , and you discover a rather different Kinski: an irascible, lonely, lovable eccentric, whose fits of rage come and go like squalls, whose childish enthusiasm for filmmaking and playacting bursts through the put-on cynicism.


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