Example Sentences

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Emergency services were called to Ormiston Cliff Park Primary Academy in Gorleston, Norfolk, where flames and black smoke were billowing from the building.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

Just a few miles away, columns of black and white smoke were billowing from a warehouse.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2023

Tseng told them it would look as if it were billowing in the wind, but the flag just looks abused, and the men in front of it appear puffed with vainglory.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2019

Soon curtains of black smoke were billowing out of the one-story house, obscuring the peeling red paint and overgrown blackberry vines.

From Washington Times • Dec. 9, 2017

The violets were good tinder and soon greasy clouds of smoke were billowing high into the air.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss