[ UK /bˈɪlə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɪɫoʊ/ ]
VERB
  1. rise and move, as in waves or billows
    The army surged forward
  2. move with great difficulty
    The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed
  3. become inflated
    The sails ballooned
  4. rise up as if in waves
    smoke billowed up into the sky
NOUN
  1. a large sea wave
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How To Use billow In A Sentence

  • Billows of spume from the Irish Sea bash the seawall, misting a horizon commanded by the Big One.
  • At the top end of the glen darts of sunshine poked through the billowing clouds and encouraged us to go for it and, fully rigged up in waterproofs, we were soon splashing our way up into the Lairig Eilde.
  • At twenty thousand meters, with the pods still traveling at a high velocity, parachutes billowed out from the same boxes that had contained the glider wings.
  • Men have been unwearied in their efforts to obscure the plain, simple meaning of the Scriptures, and to make them contradict their own testimony; but like the ark upon the billowy deep, the word of God outrides the storms that threaten it with destruction. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan
  • This may be because when he started mixing up a bucket in the new kitchen, billows of dust began puffing under the doors onto my new upstairs carpets.
  • Mr Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice, was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence.
  • Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin. Times, Sunday Times
  • At that house, he would stop playing his game of solitaire over in the corner table and, cigar-smoke billowing around his massive figure, have me ask him in Yiddish -- bitte mia gelt -- "please give me some money," before peeling off a fresh ten soles bill. David Kersh: Time-travel to Peru With My Son
  • Just as she darted into the shadows, her dark cloak billowing behind her, showing a flash of crimson, a loud ruckus came from the front door.
  • Her glazed porcelain wings billow in a gossamer sweep of iridescence.
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