billowing

Example Sentences

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Don’s suit is indented with billowing wrinkles, perhaps to suggest the idea of movement, as if the colossus is soaring through the air.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

The scene mirrored the energy of a film set, all drama and specific lighting and smoke billowing from mysterious corners, honoring the house’s relationship with cinema.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Before that, the 50-year-old artist, who years ago dropped his surname Javacheff, erected a billowing, white “running fence” that curved through California farm lands like a ghostly ribbon dropped by an unseen hand.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

She described looking down into the street and seeing "black billowing smoke" and an "orange glow where the door was".

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

It feels like a thunderstorm, gray clouds billowing across the sky.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender