billow
Example Sentences
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Ms. Iturbide’s most well-known image shows a woman with flowing waist-length hair and billowing skirts looming above a hardscrabble landscape, a modern boombox clutched in her right hand.
The centerpiece of Chicago’s wildly successful Millennium Park, the bandshell’s billowing 120-foot proscenium, supported by a web of aluminum arms, is fronted by dozens of torqued stainless steel ribbons, which exuberantly frame the stage.
From Los Angeles Times
But the moment he opened the door, the extent of the disaster was all too clear: he was engulfed in billowing smoke and had to retreat inside his flat.
From BBC
The flames sent smoke billowing above the nearby industrial area of Challenger Way.
From Los Angeles Times
He rushed home from work to find the 31-storey building in flames, with black smoke billowing out of it.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
