Example Sentences

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The video was posted under the headline “#Breaking News Fire in Downtown High-Rise. Flames and smoke are billowing from the top floors of the structure. Avoid the area.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

Huge clouds of smoke are billowing over the northern outskirts of Athens, where people are being urged to leave their homes.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2021

Away, on either hand, volcanic hills are billowing to vapory distance; and in their nearer hollows are beautiful deepenings of color: ponded shades of diaphanous blue or purplish tone….

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio