Example Sentences

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But far from being stopped, the insurgency has billowed out from its northern beginnings across the country’s center and to its neighbors.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

Wade, a black cloud of fear and despair has billowed out over the country.

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2022

Even as it has billowed to consider such lofty elements as water, sun and air, Lorde’s close-miked music has retained such a careful intimacy that, at times, you can still actually hear her smiling.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2021

Have you been compulsively checking  to see if white smoke has billowed from the Sistine Chapel yet?

From Newsweek • Mar. 12, 2013

Smog, from smokestacks and refineries but most of all from the 25 million vehicles on the freeways, was already fouling the air in Los Angeles; now it has billowed east as far as San Bernardino.

From Time Magazine Archive