squall

Object

• guitar: With its thick, squalling guitar it sounds more like a précis of the full version that we know and love.

Converse of object

• pass: Only now, as it grows dark, do we realize that they were just passing squalls.

Converse of subject

• hit: We were sailing along quite happily in a good force 4 when we were hit by a squall.

Adjective modifier

• sudden: In many harbor areas or at the mouths of large river systems, these summer afternoon or evening breezes give rise to sudden squalls.

Modifies a noun

• line: Squall line 1840 with 5 mm hail turning to heavy snow.

Noun used with modifier

• rain: The great lagoon was making its own weather: in the far eastern corner there were gray pillars of a rain squall.

Preposition: of

• rain: By 29 October 2000, the winds had gusted to Gale Force 8 and even Storm Force 10, with squalls of heavy rain.