billow
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verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
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Contemporary Examples of billowing
Fleeing residents screamed and moments later an ambulance sped toward the billowing smoke.
Palestinians Fleeing Israeli Bombardment in Gaza Have ‘Nowhere Left to Run’Jesse Rosenfeld
July 20, 2014
There was a sense of ease in the loose white shirt-dresses, billowing skirts, and roomy pajama pants.
There were no billowing sheets or dramatic scores to lead them through it.
The Sex Scenes in ‘The Spectacular Now’ Are Awkward, Honest, and All Too RealAnna Klassen
August 2, 2013
The air all around them was filled with a storm of leaves, billowing and drifting and soaring in the gusts.
Wearing dashikis, yukatas, and flannel robes—any kind of billowing uni-garment will do the trick.
Historical Examples of billowing
He could see it more clearly now, billowing upward in grim portent.
The Vagrant DukeGeorge Gibbs
"You said it, Donny-boy," said the misty man by the billowing curtains.
Death of a SpacemanWalter M. Miller
It was as if a sea in unmeasured storm were billowing nearer and nearer.
Despair's Last JourneyDavid Christie Murray
No, it is no gull, it is the wonder-ship flying along with billowing sails.
The Crimson Fairy BookVarious
The slope above them was almost covered by the billowing spheres.
The People of the Black CircleRobert E. Howard