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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
squall .
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Examples
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"He didn't!" the hen turkeys squalled, meaning that Turkey Proudfoot hadn't been chased, but had _led_ the geese across the farmyard.
The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales Arthur Scott Bailey 1913
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I have said she squalled and scratched like a cat when
Chapter 21 2010
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Seeing the needle, Willa, shrewd veteran, threw back her head and squalled.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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Seeing the needle, Willa, shrewd veteran, threw back her head and squalled.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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Peg Leg squalled like a cut cat when I hooked his big bass for bait, but, dang it he did drop the lantern.
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I am that man, the sum of him, the all of him, the hairless biped who struggled upward from the slime and created love and law out of the anarchy of fecund life that screamed and squalled in the jungle.
Chapter 21 2010
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The horse went into a reluctant and stiff-legged gallop, while Jerry followed, snarling and growling wrath at so high a pitch that almost he squalled.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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As any screaming creature of the jungle, he hysterically squalled his indignation.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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But the porcupine, squealing and grunting, with disrupted anatomy trying feebly to roll up into its ball-protection, flicked out its tail again, and again the big cat squalled with hurt and astonishment.
The Lair 2010
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Peg Leg squalled like a cut cat when I hooked his big bass for bait, but, dang it he did drop the lantern.
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