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.
She looked as divine as she always did this evening, her golden jewelry jingling and gleaming in the ethereal light, and her soft, thin white gown billowing about her.
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.
Through the trees you may catch glimpses of billowing sails, wind surfers, cross-lakes ferries and motor boats.
Smoke billowed from the wreckage of the white car, and ambulances rushed to the scene.
For the first time in 80 years, three of the four processions for the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa, were cancelled, thanks to mad billows blowing over every banner and stanchion and cordon, rain guttering from every rooftop, children's fingers growing waxy. Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter
There he cut a memorable figure with his red sash, billowing white shirt and stupendous head of crisp wavy hair. The Times Literary Supplement
The dress was a deep, dark blue with a billowing skirt, under which I wore layers of crinoline. WEB OF DREAMS
Balloon blind A shade or blind with deep inverted pleats which create a billowing balloon-like effect.
A thick cloud of black smoke billowed from the top.
A billowing fog of chill air poured out of the door and swirled around Cane's arms and legs as he heedlessly strode forward.
He was dressed in the finest of silks, violet in colour, with a dark cape billowing over his shoulders.
From the mountain a giant mushroom cloud billowed into the sky.
But it will burn, and that is what our fuel truck did, stubbornly and with thick billows of oily black smoke that would have prevented us from smothering the blaze with sand even if we had not been too tired to lift our shovels.
Adam's cloak billowed out behind him as he walked.
I could softly talk into the microphone and record the type of clouds billowing above, the look of the dew on the grass, the hawk gliding overhead, the ripe dewberries at my feet.
Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her.
Fresh leaves will burn slowly with billows of smoke.
Orange flames burst from the root of his right wing and billowed back toward the tail, turning into coal-black smoke.
Thick clouds of black smoke billow out of each of the vehicles, sometimes coming from the exhaust pipe.
Her long skirt billowed in the breeze.
In a single motion, she had pulled the gown from her shoulders, sending the light fabric billowing onto the floor.
Men strolled on the sidewalks, clad in long billowing cloaks, with openly displayed swords.
The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed
The interior of the plane was billowing with smoke. Bomber
Three separate billows of smoke rose into the sky in three separate hollows in the forest below.
Light billowed out of her, and warmth in damp gusts as if from a garden after a rainstorm. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A Delicate Subject
In the installation, Acconci literally pushed the envelope into billowing floes that waltzed visitors through space.
Your hood's smoking’ and indeed large billows of dark smoke were coming out of the little red sedan.
He is oblivious of the smoke billowing from one of the towers behind him, white against a hazy blue sky. Times, Sunday Times
Puffs of smoke billowed from underneath juniper and pinyon trees as flames licked at the trees. Thousands ordered out of Ariz. town as fire nears
Smoke billowed from the burning building.
There's no lawn to mow, no billowy shrubs to prune, few flowers to fuss over.
Orange flames burst from the root of his right wing and billowed back toward the tail, turning into coal-black smoke.
We walked beneath white clouds billowing against a deep blue sky. Christianity Today
The skylights billow like sheets flapping in the wind and dancing curtains shine green and faintly red.
The article begins with an artist's rendering of the ‘smoke’ that billowed from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, with text that glossed the final days of the war.
The sail billows out and the boat surges forward across the water.
On September 18 they put into the excellent port of the island of Gomera, 'the best,' he says, 'in all the Canaries, the town and castle standing on the very breach of the sea, but the billows do so tumble and overfall that it is impossible to land upon any part of the strand but by swimming, saving in a cove under steep rocks, where they can pass towards the town but one after the other.' Raleigh
The comfort of a warm bowl, the scent billowing from a savory sauce, and the toothsome bite of perfectly cooked pasta-there's nothing like it.
All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels. Set in Silver
The kids and Bill exhale billows of steam as they stand around; resting up for the next charge through the brush.
The boat gamboled on her steady course, sails billowing and emitting brisk, tolling tones as the wind caught them high.
White socks became widely available and shorts were baggy and billowing. Times, Sunday Times
Great clouds of filthy, evil-smelling smoke billowed from his garden to ours, rolled over the house and down the other side.
He lives in the lonely lands where mighty rivers twist in long reaches between the barren bluffs; where the prairies stretch out into billowy plains of waving grass, girt only by the blue horizon, plains across whose endless breadth he can steer his course for days and weeks and see neither man to speak to nor hill to break the level; where the glory and the burning splendor of the sunsets kindle the blue vault of heaven and the level brown earth till they merge together in an ocean of flaming fire. Frontier Types
There in front of me a man-made object was seemingly defying the laws of physics, because it remained sideways moving at the same rate of speed with puffy white smoke billowing from the tires — the sound and smell of rubber being scrapped across pavement, in a way it was not designed to, filled the air around us. Driving story from heck
I knew this as I turned on the morning news to see a shot of the Empire State Building in the foreground and the World Trade Center with black smoke billowing from the North Tower. Remember, always « Adventures in Juggling
For miles and miles, above and around, great billowy masses, tossed and twisted into an infinity of fantastic shapes, arrest and weary the eye, lava in all its forms, from a compact phonolite, to the lightest pumice stone, the mere froth of the volcano, exceeding in wildness and confusion the most extravagant nightmare ever inflicted on man. The Hawaiian Archipelago
The candle sets their billowing clothes aquiver, and is about to singe and set the piper's sleeve on fire. The Times Literary Supplement
The force of the blast rips off its cover and sends flames and smoke billowing into the air. The Sun
The rocky coastline is a near monochrome of pale blues that darken in the rocks and billowing clouds as though illuminated by moonlight.
Her long skirt billowed in the breeze.
His red army cloak billowed in the wind, Casca noted that the Galdius Iberius was in the proper position on the priest's right side and then in the monk's left hand he saw the filum. The Eternal Mercenary
The food is top-notch, and the decor—billowing silk in shades of burned yellow and red—is circusy and elegant. TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
Large billows of smoke were rising from the platform.
He believed with those who say that the men who dares the 'tempests' wrath, 'and the' billows 'madden'd play' on the errand of saving life, to be as great heroes as those who 'seek for bubble reputation at the cannon's mouth.' The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe
For ease of maintenance mesembryanthemums can't be beaten because they come in bright colours and require little water and develop into soft billows.
A girl is riding a bicycle down the cobbled streets of Cambridge - hair flying, gown billowing out behind her.
She took a picture of the family's abandoned picnic chairs with smoke still billowing behind. The Sun
Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin. Times, Sunday Times
A farmer was burning straw, the yellow billows of smoke spiralling lazily upward.
Saw ye not white fog-wreaths floating through the cold gray dawn over ice-laden billows, as they roll through yon rock-cinctured chasm? The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
Dramatic glints of light and billowing shadows set a menacing tone.
She came out of the small station, the smoke from the departing train billowed across the lane, parting and swirling about the bare hawthorns.
They tell the story (an amalgam as absorbing as calzium chloereydes and hydrophobe sponges could make it) how one happygogusty Ides-of-April morning (the anniversary, as it fell out, of his first assumption of his mirthday suit and rights in appurtenance to the confusioning of human races) ages and ages after the alleged misdemeanour when the tried friend of all creation, tigerwood roadstaff to his stay, was billowing across the wide expanse of our greatest park in his caoutchouc kepi and great belt and hideinsacks and his blaufunx fustian and ironsides jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberised inverness, he met a cad with a pipe. Finnegans Wake
She took a picture of the family's abandoned picnic chairs with smoke still billowing behind. The Sun
The curtains billowed in the breeze.
The work features billowing swags of colorful cloth set against a silver and gold foil background splashed with red and brown oil paint, and thin copper tubing traversing the width of the entire field.
The memorable images of billowing clouds hid the vast numbers of people on the ground that made them happen. Times, Sunday Times
The lane squeezes tight between dry-stone walls, big green views billow away to the north and there are bijou meadows soaked with buttercups as tall as daffodils.
And, of course, frequent barbecues with clouds of greasy smoke billowing over our fence.
Besides, the skirt billowed out when I turned around.
A neighbour spotted clouds of smoke billowing from the hall and raised the alarm.
The clouds billowed up out of nowhere and obscured the sun within seconds.
From this desk, some of the great classical works of modern times would emerge through billowing tobacco clouds. Times, Sunday Times
Pierce had not shifted his gaze from the Spanish ensign, but she suspected that he no longer saw the red and yellow fabric billowing in the breeze.
As she watched, the whole sea lifted, a green billow rose and drowned the cave and lashed against the rock.
A man was hanging out of an upstairs window, choking on the billowing smoke. The Sun
We carried on regardless, live on radio, with smoke billowing out from the woodwind. Times, Sunday Times
Her pink dress billowed out around her.
She sat on the cold, slightly damp stone and let her cloak drop, watching as it billowed around her ankles like a cloud of thick black smoke.
Is that tumbleweed I see, billowing past the bar?
The billowing words obtruded itself into all the elf's senses.
A jet of highly energized particles, called a coronal mass ejection, was spotted billowing away from the sun a short time later. Space Diary: Sun
It had just reached the God-will-it-ever-burn stage, with smoke billowing over the lapboard fence into the neighbour's yard. Some by Fire
A farmer was burning straw, the yellow billows of smoke spiralling lazily upward.
WEARING billowing white wedding dresses and smart morning suits, thousands of happy couples crammed into vast venues to exchange vows. The Sun
Eighty-nine passengers slid down emergency chutes and jumped from the wings as smoke billowed from a toilet.
And, of course, I got to remembering Monday wash days at home, clouds of steam billowing, the washboard clattering and the mangle creaking, lines of gleaming white washing hanging out to dry.
Fire, smoke, and chunks of concrete billowed out from the villa's walls. Rebel Gains Fail to End Siege of Libyan City
All the waves and billows of that wrath passed over Him.
For Jill, in the twinkling of a star, had let fall the enveloping cloak, standing for one second like some exotic bit of statuary in her black billowing satin trousers and infinitesimal coatee over a silver-spangled frothy vest, her great eyes dancing with glee over the face veil. Desert Love
Giving Anna an encouraging nod of her head she began to walk towards me, her long swishy skirt billowing around her in the breeze.
Minutes after white smoke began to billow from the Sistine Chapel, bells began to toll. USATODAY.com - German conservative named pope; tells Vatican faithful, 'We go forward'
Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin. Times, Sunday Times
If you are tall, billowing silky fabrics will work for you. Times, Sunday Times
A mantle billowed up from the cloak and settled about her shoulders, holding the medallion in place.
The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them.
A thundering, prehistoric steam engine cleaves the crowd, whistle screaming, a velvet column billowing into the dark.
Everyone gasped as they caught their first glimpse of the gaping hole in the tower and the billowing smoke.
Orange flames burst from the root of his right wing and billowed back toward the tail, turning into coal-black smoke.
Then gave I myself to the sea, but the billows thereof cast me out aland, and to this king then was I given; then gave I Swanhild away out of the land with mighty wealth; and lo, my next greatest sorrow after Sigurd, for under horses feet was she trodden and slain; but the grimmest and ugliest of woes was the casting of Gunnar into the Worm-close, and the hardest was the cutting of The Story of the Volsungs
The photographer scattered cotton reels on our billowing skirts and we pretended to weave some kilts for our wild Scottish blokes out there in the hills.
Gazar billows like a full sail and creates shapes that float Beene liked to use gazar in his later years. Fashion's Eternal Flame
The hills were cool, and a breeze kept his shirt billowed out.
Pouring from the top of the candle flame, billows of black smoke blotted out many stars.
His mind had not that reach and elemental movement of Milton's, which, like the tradewind, gathered to itself thoughts and images like stately fleets from every quarter; some deep with silks and spicery, some brooding over the silent thunders of their battailous armaments, but all swept forward in their destined track, over the long billows of his verse, every inch of canvas strained by the unifying breath of their common epic impulse. Among My Books Second Series
By then the fire flared again melting a fire hose and sending thick, black smoke billowing from the burning building.
An expression in Jeremiah is wonderfully precise; "Though the waves thereof toss themselves" thus describing that separate and individual motion of each billow, which they have from the greatest to the least. Extracts from a Lady's Log-Book,
She ran outside to see a billowing plume of smoke. Times, Sunday Times
But the bowman was a muscular seaman of fifty, and he won the victory over the billows, and hauled the man into the cutter. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East
An advance guard of puffy little cumulus clouds gradually billow up into grey and menacing cumulus mediocris. Times, Sunday Times
She laughed and spun around and gave me a look of her yellow leg when the skirt billowed out.
It was lilac, strapless, had a short train, the top was form fitting, but the bottom billowed out slightly when I walked.
There he cut a memorable figure with his red sash, billowing white shirt and stupendous head of crisp wavy hair. The Times Literary Supplement
His priest's robes billowed out behind him as he walked over to her.
Her full skirt billowed around her as she danced.
Justin reappears in a billowing white cape, stripy red and white skintight rock trousers and an open white waistcoat.
Just seconds into the second half, Emmet Doherty fisted on a delivery from outfield into the path of Jacko Kiely and his brilliantly taken angled shot billowed the net.
Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
A passing motorist who saw smoke billowing from a house stopped to rescue the family inside. Times, Sunday Times
Smoke was billowing from the dome. Times, Sunday Times
Residents were being urged to stay in their homes after a massive stockpile of used fridges caught fire sending toxic smoke billowing into the air.
The series comes to a climax in three largo reliefs from 1966 that feature baroque, curved sections forming irregular billowing masses.
Once in awhile, a lone horseman would ride across the desert, a cloud of dust billowing behind him, but that was all she saw.
As he stood up slowly from his throne, his straggly dark hair whipped back from his forehead in the now bitter wind, his cloak taking on the image of the wings of a bat as it flapped and billowed out behind him.
His billowy-sleeved shirt was of a red silk, with a single row of silver bullet buttons ornamenting the placket.
A green bush billowed from a crack in it like a sail.
In other contemporaneous drawings, the fish bodies seem to have morphed into billowing sails and scuttling deep-sea crustaceans.
Firefighters rushed to the home after the owners spotted smoke billowing from under roof tiles. The Sun
Abillowy frock of mauve and pink tulle, with a tiny jewelled bodice, is completedby a tinted wig in the same primula shade, while glittering bracelets, caught withwisps of tulle, show up the fairylike wrists manipulating a great fan of snow-whiteplumes. Archive 2009-05-01
But a portable office attached to one wall is billowing smoke. Times, Sunday Times
The guns leapt backwards with a rolling crash and an immense cloud of dirty smoke billowed back.
She gestured at the masts and sails billowing overhead.
As smoke started billowing from the roof, five appliances arrived.
The bomb's detonation is spectacular, all billowing flames and smoke and debris, and not much in the way of bodies or limbs or bloody flecks, the kind of stuff that does tend to fly around under such circumstances.
Endless stretches of water, gleaming rivers and gliding boats framed within the vibrant shades of green paddy fields and blue skies dotted with billowy white clouds.
‘Suddenly,’ she recalls, ‘a fissure splits the surface and billowing clouds of sulfurous gases hurl ice and ash into the sky.’
The billows of death overwhelmed him, and cast his exanimate body on the desolate shore.
She was sure, though, running at break neck speed, fabric billowing behind her, that something on the outside was now trying to break through.
In the mid-distance a cottage is burning, as smoke violently billows and fumes.
One intriguing feature of the house is the bowed glass in the windows, each pane billowing outwards like a sail. Times, Sunday Times
Only when the surfboat rose on a billow could they be lowered, for at other times the distance was so great that the deck of the steamer looked as far away as the roof of a tall building. Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast
Her puffs of tobacco-brown hair billowing about her shoulders.
Vehicles churned up billowing clouds of dust as they drove through a barren landscape of cracked land dotted with green clumps of grass.
The colours are heavily saturated: her red dress billows against a deep blue sky.
He is oblivious of the smoke billowing from one of the towers behind him, white against a hazy blue sky. Times, Sunday Times
Skating to classic Russian balalaika music when I was thirteen, I had demanded a full Cossack costume with big, billowing pants, boots, and a little vest. Welcome to My World
The light reflected off my white lab coat as it billowed behind my thin frame.
After a hundred feet the trail went steep and wet, and he slid through wild angelica stalks and billows of dogberry. THE SHIPPING NEWS
There's a great sense of fantasy about billowy clothes.
Plastic bags hung from trees and billowed in the water as they draped from branches along Old Man River. Plague of Plastics Across the Oceans
Adorned in a knee length, billowy red skirt with matching long sleeved shirt and wrap-around that ended right above her naval, she was the height of fashion.
Cyzarine was wearing a long-sleeved white dress that went to the floor and it billowed out a bit and the fabric was extremely soft.
I am still haunted my the look of horror on my beloved's face as I chundered booze and party snacks over her billowing cleavage.
From the top one of the ridges such as billowed like swells of the sea that gray-green, treeless plain, Morgan looked back. Trail's End
If you are tall, billowing silky fabrics will work for you. Times, Sunday Times
Holding within their billowed masses the healing punishments of the rain, chaliced beakers of golden flame, lightnings instant and unbearable as the face of God -- dissolving into a crystal nothing, reborn from the viewless caverns of air -- here let us erect one enraptured altar to the bright mountains of the sky! Shandygaff
We carried on regardless, live on radio, with smoke billowing out from the woodwind. Times, Sunday Times
It was quite billowy, and the sleeves ballooned at the wrists.
She was veiled in a dark cloak, billowing around her slim body and skimming the surface of the water.
Billowing clouds of steam and smoke drifted and eddied, obscuring then revealing the tormented reddish rock of the opposite wall.
I suspect in truth they are all secretly axe murderers, billowing around Brisbane in their darth vader capes and skintight black leisurewear between the hours of 3 and 5am, killing off traffic inspectors and cyclists who fail to equip their bikes with night vision. Cheeseburger Gothic » Friday writing blog: Ideas and synthesis
Plumes of smoke billowed from the chimney.
One intriguing feature of the house is the bowed glass in the windows, each pane billowing outwards like a sail. Times, Sunday Times
Grace, a mousy wallflower of a girl who had remained quiet until now, is pointing towards the window, where the curtains are now billowing in the wind and the tree branches are scraping against the glass.
The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them.
And, sure enough, there on the deck is a guy is a brilliant, somewhat unworldly professor, busily sketching a design for a new lifeboat as the smoke billows in larger and larger clouds. Other Stuff « Gerry Canavan
We walked beneath white clouds billowing against a deep blue sky. Christianity Today
She laughed and spun around and gave me a look of her yellow leg when the skirt billowed out.
He said: 'A huge plume of smoke was billowing above the rails. The Sun
He said: 'A huge plume of smoke was billowing above the rails. The Sun
Her lab coat billowed around her thin frame, smelling sour as she paced back and forth.
`Look, darling," she called, billowing out her splendid full coat, `a peony past its prime today! DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
The island looked disastrous, with billows of smoke rising to the skies, the houses on fire.
Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin. Times, Sunday Times
Everything seems to billow, there are clouds of this and drifts of that, totally in harmony with the languor of a drowsy summer day.
The not yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk and, striding in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread. Weatherwatch: The weather in Moby-Dick
Firefighters rushed to the home after the owners spotted smoke billowing from under roof tiles. The Sun
The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them.
billowed" in -- which seems to be the word to express it -- he came with such a rush and tide of life. Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907
Were we men, we should spring at the sign, the cold billow would be dared for the sake of the colder enchantress; being women, we stand safe, though not dreadless. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
It was Chelsea, spurring her white palfrey onward towards them, her ice-blue gown billowing out behind her as she rode side-saddle.
Billows of gray smoke blanketed the area.
Competition flex wing hang gliders would be hard to turn if they didn't have a good amount of anhedral, as they don't have enough sail billow to allow weight shifting to change to shape of the sail quickly and easily.
Billows of smoke blown across the road by the wind made my eyes water.
As the alarms sounded, I saw masses of black smoke billowing out and realised it was serious.
A man was hanging out of an upstairs window, choking on the billowing smoke. The Sun
A sudden wind billowed the tent alarmingly.
Steam billowed out from under the bonnet.
Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.

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