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The region's oil export terminals have been hit several times in recent weeks, triggering massive fires that billow plumes of toxic black smoke into the atmosphere.

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

And the roof, in turn, seems to billow from the chapel’s main tower, a white, silo-like mass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was in northern New Jersey, and watched the smoke billow from the World Trade Center.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2025

Intense pyrocumulonimbus plumes billow from the raging Park fire in Northern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024

Salim thinks of the desert then: red sands blow a dust-storm through his thoughts, and the scarlet silks of the tents that surrounded the lost city of Ubar flap and billow through his mind.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Sprouting eyes, wings, beaks, the slender monolith seemingly rotates and billows as it rises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

AFP journalists who traveled to the landfill site by boat saw billows of thick, gray smoke completely enveloping houses on Salambao -- one of the islands from which people were evacuated.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Video posted on X shows Lamin trying to keep people away from the shop as smoke billows from its doorway.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

The internet billows with sobering images of derelict casinos and abandoned food halls, often emblazoned with apocalyptic all-caps exhortations of doom: “5 Reasons Why Las Vegas is DYING!”

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

The largest has curdled into a pillar like the cloud of tephra and ash and steam that billows atop an erupting volcano.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The night sky glowed orange and smoke billowed from the Dormition Cathedral in the Monastery of the Caves, also known as the Pechersk Lavra monastery complex.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Plumes of thick black smoke billowed into the air Sunday afternoon as firefighters struggled to contain a large industrial fire at a tire recycling facility in South Gate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

I’m not sure what would provoke anyone to tune in, but like clockwork, the viewership billowed to the thousands.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

Up to 21 fire engines were at the scene by about 12:30 GMT, the fire service said, as thick black smoke billowed from the blaze.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

It roared again, and sheets of fire belched from its mouth and nostrils, melting the snow and ice so that steam billowed into the air to mix with flame and choking smoke.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

A whistle sounds in the distance, and the ground rattles as the train comes into view, plumes of steam billowing out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

But levels of fine particulate matter spiked sharply during the main show, leaving people watching from the south with an obscured view as smoke came billowing their way.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Another AFP journalist on the Israeli side of the border saw smoke billowing behind the historic Beaufort Castle, a strategic position not far from Nabatieh that Israel captured last month.

From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026

Satellite imagery seen by BBC Verify shows smoke billowing from Jalveer.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

It had a high brown smokestack that the blue smoke was pouring from and an extra little roof that seemed to be sitting on great billowing white clouds of steam.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen