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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

I loved watching the fallen leaves billow up from the road in great whirling circles as I drove by.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 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

Libonati remained in his vehicle and escaped, watching black smoke billow in his rearview mirror as his childhood neighborhood went up in flames.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

We couldn't turn and go back because now the ice behind us had started to billow.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

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

Footage shows a man climbing from a balcony as black smoke billows out from behind him during an apartment fire in Antwerp.

From BBC ● 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

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 moonlight shines and billows; the broken clouds scud above the trees.

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

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

As the eruption column billowed into the sky, day turned to night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

A plume of smoke billowed from the crash site as emergency vehicles sped towards it.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

Shocking video shared at the time showed Mr Ramesh walking away from the aftermath with seemingly superficial injuries, as smoke billowed in the background.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025

I opened the sack just outside the cottage and a thick, dusty powder billowed out.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

Satellite images from Copernicus Sentinel Data taken on Thursday showed black smoke billowing near Medina, along the general route of the East-West pipeline that carries Saudi oil to its Red Sea coast.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Nothing says things are not going to plan more than long queues for petrol and billowing smoke coming from stricken oil refineries.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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

He is staring up at the smoke, now billowing upward, his brow furrowed.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera