Meanings of violent squall in English

The rain, concentrated in a violent squall, lashes against the pickup.

When a violent squall broke the halyard, she was knocked overboard by the gaff.

These are usually preceded by a violent squall, like that which capsized the Eurydice.

The weather was vile; almost every hour a violent squall of hail and snow swept over us.

There came up a violent squall off the open Solway, and the rain was dashed on the great windows.

A few minutes more, and the little vessel was caught in a violent squall, and swept back into the cyclone.

On the 12th, about midnight, we had a violent squall that at once levelled every tent in the camp to the ground.

But in the afternoon the sky clouded over suddenly, and a violent squall, accompanied with thick mists, swept down upon the fort.

One day a violent squall set adrift everyone's boat, except his, and he helped get back all the boats, gaining everyone's approval.

Once he went to get his garden seeds and, coming back, a violent squall blew his basket with all his purchases overboard.

Suddenly something burst in the stagnant air; there was a violent squall of wind which whirled round and round, roaring and whistling over the steppe.

As usual, the crew were nearly all drunk; and, before sail could be properly taken in, a violent squall laid the brig on her beam-ends.

Meeting, too, with violent squalls of wind, they were driven off their course.

Violent squalls from the west or the opposite direction to the trade-wind then occur.

There were violent squalls and bursts of thunder.

Down upon us swept one of the abrupt, violent squalls that are met with in those latitudes.