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Thick clouds of red dust billow skyward as earthmovers cut roads through the Abujhmad hills of India's central Chhattisgarh state, the last holdout of a nearly 60-year insurgency that has cost 12,000 lives.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

There’s nothing like watching as clouds billow over Doi Suthep, the mountain overlooking Chiang Mai, before gushing onto the city’s durian- and diesel-fumed streets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 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

I have just enough room in both shirts, but not so much that they billow unnecessarily out of my pants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

She kicks the can all the way to the second guard, and a train passes underneath her in a billow of steam.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Four Marines crouch in the foreground surrounded by the blackened remains of burned trees; in the top two-thirds of the picture the black-and-white smoke of the blast billows upward, beautiful in its destruction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my soul.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

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

It was an emotional occasion for fans gathered in the city centre, where claret and blue smoke billowed from flares as flags were flown.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

Plumes of black smoke billowed into the sky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 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

The way her skirts and scarf billowed around her as she sank onto the threadbare carpet was utterly splendid, and Ophie had to swallow a sigh.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

Following the show — billowing shapes, punk-y hair sculptures, all classically Collina — we walked into a whimsical picnic complete with a margarita fountain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

"Climate, changed," is the Observer's pithy headline, describing it as "the burning issue" overlaying smoke billowing from mountainside fires in Powys, Wales.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Disaster management agency Conred issued a nationwide orange alert, the second highest, and warned locals to be prepared as the eruptions could create further pyroclastic flows and billowing ash clouds.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Columns of thick black smoke were still billowing into the sky from one of the factories hours after the hit, an AFP reporter saw.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

There was the roar of an engine and then a billowing cloud of red fire exploded over the grass, blazing it to a crisp.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz