billow
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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
Smoke is continuing to billow from the Solong, but Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said both ships were expected to remain afloat.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025
Intense pyrocumulonimbus plumes billow from the raging Park fire in Northern California.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024
There, as the whirlpool drank the tide, a billow tossed me, and I sprang for the great fig tree, catching on like a bat under a bough.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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