billow
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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
“I am crossing my fingers, we are OK for now,” said Pavelka as he watched smoke billow over the Santa Ana Mountains near the spot where he has lived for 20 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
Abra sat down on the ground, or rather she seemed to drift down, and her full skirts settled in a billow around her.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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
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
London's grey and angular Barbican Centre is now a sea of pink - its frontage covered in cloth that billows in the breeze as if dancing.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
You could see it shimmer high in crystal billows.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
When smoke billowed from the damaged Fairmont The Palm hotel, he decided to hunker down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Black smoke billowed over the Iranian capital, with officials there warning of the hazardous health effects for residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 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
A plume of smoke billowed from the crash site as emergency vehicles sped towards it.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
She had nothing useful to say about this, she thought, and the silence billowed out between them.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
He then erupts in flames twice his height, dark smoke billowing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 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
In the distance, she could see the billowing black smoke of a raging fire in nearby Gironde.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Dense wildfire smoke billowing down from Canada set off unhealthy air quality alerts across the United States on Friday, triggering concern over the weekend's World Cup final outside New York.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
It felt like a gigantic tent billowing out.
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
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