How To Use Billowing In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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Mr Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice, was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence.
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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Through the trees you may catch glimpses of billowing sails, wind surfers, cross-lakes ferries and motor boats.
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There he cut a memorable figure with his red sash, billowing white shirt and stupendous head of crisp wavy hair.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The dress was a deep, dark blue with a billowing skirt, under which I wore layers of crinoline.
WEB OF DREAMS
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Balloon blind A shade or blind with deep inverted pleats which create a billowing balloon-like effect.
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A billowing fog of chill air poured out of the door and swirled around Cane's arms and legs as he heedlessly strode forward.
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He was dressed in the finest of silks, violet in colour, with a dark cape billowing over his shoulders.
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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.
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In a single motion, she had pulled the gown from her shoulders, sending the light fabric billowing onto the floor.
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Men strolled on the sidewalks, clad in long billowing cloaks, with openly displayed swords.
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The interior of the plane was billowing with smoke.
Bomber
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In the installation, Acconci literally pushed the envelope into billowing floes that waltzed visitors through space.
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He is oblivious of the smoke billowing from one of the towers behind him, white against a hazy blue sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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We walked beneath white clouds billowing against a deep blue sky.
Christianity Today
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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.
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The boat gamboled on her steady course, sails billowing and emitting brisk, tolling tones as the wind caught them high.
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White socks became widely available and shorts were baggy and billowing.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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The candle sets their billowing clothes aquiver, and is about to singe and set the piper's sleeve on fire.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The force of the blast rips off its cover and sends flames and smoke billowing into the air.
The Sun
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The rocky coastline is a near monochrome of pale blues that darken in the rocks and billowing clouds as though illuminated by moonlight.
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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
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A girl is riding a bicycle down the cobbled streets of Cambridge - hair flying, gown billowing out behind her.
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She took a picture of the family's abandoned picnic chairs with smoke still billowing behind.
The Sun
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dramatic glints of light and billowing shadows set a menacing tone.
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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
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She took a picture of the family's abandoned picnic chairs with smoke still billowing behind.
The Sun
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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.
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The memorable images of billowing clouds hid the vast numbers of people on the ground that made them happen.
Times, Sunday Times
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And, of course, frequent barbecues with clouds of greasy smoke billowing over our fence.
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A neighbour spotted clouds of smoke billowing from the hall and raised the alarm.
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From this desk, some of the great classical works of modern times would emerge through billowing tobacco clouds.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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A man was hanging out of an upstairs window, choking on the billowing smoke.
The Sun
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We carried on regardless, live on radio, with smoke billowing out from the woodwind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is that tumbleweed I see, billowing past the bar?
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The billowing words obtruded itself into all the elf's senses.
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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
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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
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WEARING billowing white wedding dresses and smart morning suits, thousands of happy couples crammed into vast venues to exchange vows.
The Sun
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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.
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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
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Giving Anna an encouraging nod of her head she began to walk towards me, her long swishy skirt billowing around her in the breeze.
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you are tall, billowing silky fabrics will work for you.
Times, Sunday Times
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A thundering, prehistoric steam engine cleaves the crowd, whistle screaming, a velvet column billowing into the dark.
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Everyone gasped as they caught their first glimpse of the gaping hole in the tower and the billowing smoke.
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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.
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By then the fire flared again melting a fire hose and sending thick, black smoke billowing from the burning building.
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She ran outside to see a billowing plume of smoke.
Times, Sunday Times
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There he cut a memorable figure with his red sash, billowing white shirt and stupendous head of crisp wavy hair.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Justin reappears in a billowing white cape, stripy red and white skintight rock trousers and an open white waistcoat.
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A passing motorist who saw smoke billowing from a house stopped to rescue the family inside.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smoke was billowing from the dome.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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The series comes to a climax in three largo reliefs from 1966 that feature baroque, curved sections forming irregular billowing masses.
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Once in awhile, a lone horseman would ride across the desert, a cloud of dust billowing behind him, but that was all she saw.
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In other contemporaneous drawings, the fish bodies seem to have morphed into billowing sails and scuttling deep-sea crustaceans.
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Firefighters rushed to the home after the owners spotted smoke billowing from under roof tiles.
The Sun
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But a portable office attached to one wall is billowing smoke.
Times, Sunday Times
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She gestured at the masts and sails billowing overhead.
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As smoke started billowing from the roof, five appliances arrived.
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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.
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‘Suddenly,’ she recalls, ‘a fissure splits the surface and billowing clouds of sulfurous gases hurl ice and ash into the sky.’
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She was sure, though, running at break neck speed, fabric billowing behind her, that something on the outside was now trying to break through.
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One intriguing feature of the house is the bowed glass in the windows, each pane billowing outwards like a sail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her puffs of tobacco-brown hair billowing about her shoulders.
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Vehicles churned up billowing clouds of dust as they drove through a barren landscape of cracked land dotted with green clumps of grass.
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He is oblivious of the smoke billowing from one of the towers behind him, white against a hazy blue sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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If you are tall, billowing silky fabrics will work for you.
Times, Sunday Times
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We carried on regardless, live on radio, with smoke billowing out from the woodwind.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was veiled in a dark cloak, billowing around her slim body and skimming the surface of the water.
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Billowing clouds of steam and smoke drifted and eddied, obscuring then revealing the tormented reddish rock of the opposite wall.
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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.
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One intriguing feature of the house is the bowed glass in the windows, each pane billowing outwards like a sail.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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We walked beneath white clouds billowing against a deep blue sky.
Christianity Today
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He said: 'A huge plume of smoke was billowing above the rails.
The Sun
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He said: 'A huge plume of smoke was billowing above the rails.
The Sun
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`Look, darling," she called, billowing out her splendid full coat, `a peony past its prime today!
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Firefighters rushed to the home after the owners spotted smoke billowing from under roof tiles.
The Sun
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It was Chelsea, spurring her white palfrey onward towards them, her ice-blue gown billowing out behind her as she rode side-saddle.
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As the alarms sounded, I saw masses of black smoke billowing out and realised it was serious.
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A man was hanging out of an upstairs window, choking on the billowing smoke.
The Sun
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Firefighters rushed to the home after the owners spotted smoke billowing from under roof tiles.
The Sun
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At least 20 people died and 175 were injured yesterday when a fireworks storehouse caught fire, triggering multiple explosions and sending billowing fireballs over the Dutch town of Enschede.
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To the south, a billowing black cloud of smoke was hanging ominously over the city.
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Gone are the days when tents were a mess of heavy wooden poles and sodden canvas billowing in the wind.
Times, Sunday Times
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In July 3, the rocky coastline they both share is a near monochrome of pale blues that darken in the rocks and billowing clouds as though illuminated by moonlight.
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The national flag is billowing in the breeze.
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A round, balding priest hurried down the center aisle, his black frock billowing behind him.
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A glimpse behind the scenes is afforded by the billowing feud between Forbes and Fortune.
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She took a picture of the family's abandoned picnic chairs with smoke still billowing behind.
The Sun
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They had covered heat sensors with plastic bags and wandered off when smoke began billowing out.
The Sun
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Smoke was billowing from the dome.
Times, Sunday Times
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Episodic material consists of scales and arpeggios that enhance the music's powerful images - ocean swells, billowing sails, even a sea captain's swagger.
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His black leather trench coat billowing out behind him as his piercing blue-eyes seemed deep in thought.
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
Times, Sunday Times
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When firefighters arrived thick smoke was billowing from the windows of three floors and flames were licking from the ground floor of the building, which is understood to be used as a market hall.
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Jonathan Haas says that he often saw large, billowing clouds of the defoliant Agent Orange drift from the shore and engulf his ship, the Mount Katmai, in 1968.
Air Force Times - News
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At one point, a police helicopter reported a riot, seeing men unfurling a banner across the prison roof and smoke billowing from the yard.
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But a portable office attached to one wall is billowing smoke.
Times, Sunday Times
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When completed, the aircraft received a spectacular overall yellow color scheme with a blue cowl fading back into billowing flames.
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Today billowing fabric can still help us through the summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a powerful tale, and spun from the captivating silver-tongued artist who breathed life into its antique words, it brought deep, billowing swells of grief and joy to all who heard.
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The billowing white sail on the mast seemed to blend in with the far off clouds that covered the horizon.
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The towers stood proudly with flags billowing out and the crenellations were perfectly spaced like it was from a picture out of a fairy tale.
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Smoke from the fire could be seen billowing into the sky for miles around.
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He said: 'A huge plume of smoke was billowing above the rails.
The Sun
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The force of the blast rips off its cover and sends flames and smoke billowing into the air.
The Sun
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Curator Joan Murray once called it a "magnificent failure" - the choppy, thickly coloured brush strokes of the water, the flat tree and hills, the clouds billowing against, not with, the wind - but don't discount the word "magnificent.
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They had covered heat sensors with plastic bags and wandered off when smoke began billowing out.
The Sun
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It was a huge pall of thick black smoke billowing high into the air, west of the capital, that attracted our attention.
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In the auditorium eons of dust collected in the pale green stage curtain, sending up a billowing fog of allergens each time the folds were drawn or opened.
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We carried on regardless, live on radio, with smoke billowing out from the woodwind.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bay was full of yachts with billowing sails.
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Rather, imagine the work of a blacksmith with his heavy hammer and anvil and a thick leather apron, smoke billowing from the forge.
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From this desk, some of the great classical works of modern times would emerge through billowing tobacco clouds.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was headed out at about 10: 30 AM and as I turned on to Long Lane, I noticed a large cloud of smoke billowing into the sky.
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Seeing smoke billowing from the vicinity of the nose radome and sensor turrets, he quickly directed the crew chiefs to chock the aircraft.
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White socks became widely available and shorts were baggy and billowing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second explosion was followed by a yellow flash and a cloud of black smoke billowing from the jungle.
Boronski, John A.
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He is oblivious of the smoke billowing from one of the towers behind him, white against a hazy blue sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aidis floated backwards as he descended to the stage, his robe billowing dramatically.
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A man was hanging out of an upstairs window, choking on the billowing smoke.
The Sun
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A neighbour helped residents from the guest houses to escape through windows after seeing flames billowing from the house.
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The memorable images of billowing clouds hid the vast numbers of people on the ground that made them happen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Below water this has cooled and solidified into a reef of billowing pillow lava that splurges across the sand, leaving deep undercuts, caves and arches.
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Dreyr collapsed into a heap on the floor and wheezed as the figure walked away, its cloak billowing in the breeze and giving the illusion that the figure was much larger and more formidable.
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The evolution of fashion away from coattails for men and billowing crinolines for women put pockets nearer the body and less pickable.
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Soft off-white colours and pastels, chubby pillows and billowing curtains take the edge off a late night nursing or a restless bout of colic.
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He was at a shop delivering 100,000 of furniture when he spotted smoke billowing from the rear.
The Sun
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There's a roar and a billowing cloud of dust as the silver off-roader pulls into the drive and hurtles straight at me, scattering pebbles.
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Its 27 bedrooms are spacious, airy and attractively furnished, with hand-painted canopied or four-poster beds buried under billowing duvets as thick as snow drifts.
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The wind snared her breath, billowing it upwards in tiny clouds, tufts of cotton lost among the white latticework of the mall's entryway.
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But a gust of wind swept the billowing fabric against what appeared to be a tell-tale bulge.
The Sun
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Cassara was more than a little glad to be out of her dress and into some more comfortable clothes: a pair of billowing trousers, a cotton sweater and a pair of her favorite calf-length boots.
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you are tall, billowing silky fabrics will work for you.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today billowing fabric can still help us through the summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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At its height more than 100 firefighters fought the blaze which sent a huge plume of black, acrid smoke billowing 1,000 ft into the air.
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The video showed a white truck exploding and black plumes of smoke billowing into the air.
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I used to imagine that I was a grand lady with full billowing gowns whenever I walked down the staircase.
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the restless billowing sea
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But a gust of wind swept the billowing fabric against what appeared to be a tell-tale bulge.
The Sun
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He was at a shop delivering 100,000 of furniture when he spotted smoke billowing from the rear.
The Sun
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Once I had stuffed myself behind the wheel with my surplice billowing around me like a collapsed parachute, I switched into passive mode.
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The RAA looked at it and decided that since there was no large pile of oil underneath the car, or flames billowing from the engine bay, there was little they could do.
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The memorable images of billowing clouds hid the vast numbers of people on the ground that made them happen.
Times, Sunday Times
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The video showed a white truck exploding and black plumes of smoke billowing into the air.
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A passing motorist who saw smoke billowing from a house stopped to rescue the family inside.
Times, Sunday Times
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The interior of the plane was billowing with smoke.
Bomber
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WEARING billowing white wedding dresses and smart morning suits, thousands of happy couples crammed into vast venues to exchange vows.
The Sun
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Steam rose from all directions, billowing into swirls, each a threatening tentacle ready to choke, suffocate, asphyxiate me.
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The sun was shining brightly through the billowing sheers on her windows.
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They had covered heat sensors with plastic bags and wandered off when smoke began billowing out.
The Sun
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Lama Katie, squat, big-breasted, her hair the color of midnight in a coal mine and her eyes even darker, gave him a smile of encouragement that radiated down the two deeply etched lines defining her chin and into the billowing plumpness beneath.
The Silence
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In June 1963 he hit twenty at the top of his gloriole, and with a river of money billowing in, allowing him to buy a spread outside Paris.
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The facades and windows had been blown out by the explosion and smoke was billowing from the building.
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A mushroom of smoke and flames was billowing up into the clear sky.
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Last week, amid the clouds of self-righteous humbug billowing out from Bali, Gordon Brown committed us to what I do not hesitate to call the maddest single decision ever made by British ministers.
Archive 2007-12-01
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They had covered heat sensors with plastic bags and wandered off when smoke began billowing out.
The Sun
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Among the band's most deceptively complex fare, "Lotus Flower" weaves a spartan electronic bass line through a percussive game of patty-cake, while a billowing vocabulary of electronic sounds float into the picture, almost intravenously.
Album review: Radiohead, "The King of Limbs"
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On the hotel steps, I met Yvette with a spinnaker of blue silk billowing out behind her.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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However, it only resulted in the bed linen billowing up and temporarily obscuring his butler from his sleep-blurred sight.
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But a gust of wind swept the billowing fabric against what appeared to be a tell-tale bulge.
The Sun
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There you are and there the ball is, and there's the net billowing ever so gently, like the sail of a becalmed ship.
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Smoke could be seen billowing from many parts of the city where thousands of Madurese have sought refuge in military compounds and government offices.
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The interior of the plane was billowing with smoke.
Bomber
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The baby tottered to and fro like a blade of grass in the breeze, unevenly buttoned shirt flaps billowing wildly about.
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But a portable office attached to one wall is billowing smoke.
Times, Sunday Times
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One dancer's traipse over a billowing canopy suggested a walk on the moon; another's gymnastics under running water was both dreamlike and unsettling.
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I have only seen one guy wearing true 'jodhpurs', and he looked a bit of a tit (skintight up to the knee with billowing breeches).
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They saw the top main mast fall, could see the billowing smoke from her starboard side, and the bowsprit of another ship sticking beyond her stern.
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She ran outside to see a billowing plume of smoke.
Times, Sunday Times
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It becomes hard to make out the real men through the billowing superlatives.
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Billowing black smoke quickly filled the room, and the flames ignited the tapestries.
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Smoke is billowing from his car, which is parked by the trackside.
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Otherwise it is an ordinary day, the curtains billowing, house empty, heart beating. 3.
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All of the plants sway in the wind, but the stipa is the true weather man here, billowing with its frothy seed heads just now, as the wind picks up.
Movement « Fairegarden
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This pie has it all: crisp buttery pastry, a smooth tangy filling and a billowing meringue topping.
Times, Sunday Times
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Getting a body from river into a coracle is a tricky business, but he had practised it so long that he had it perfect, balance and heft and all, from his first grasp on the billowing sleeve to the moment when the little boat bobbed like a cork and spun like a drifting leaf, with the drowned man in-board and streaming water.
A Rare Benedictine
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A thickset but tall serious-looking man with very dark skin and sleek black hair entered, his impressive green robe billowing around him.
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It was Chelsea, spurring her white palfrey onward towards them, her ice-blue gown billowing out behind her as she rode side-saddle.
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As he got nearer he could see dark smoke billowing up from the gutted carcasses of the buildings.
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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.
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The wind was fanning the fires which still burn at the site and the smoke was billowing upwards, illuminated by the huge arc lights that had been rushed to the scene from the MTV studios on September 11.
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The force of the blast rips off its cover and sends flames and smoke billowing into the air.
The Sun
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Lightning forks scratched their summits and distant rainstorms hung like negligees billowing in the clean air.
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The resulting silver, black, white and sepia images are multilayered palimpsests whose billowing blobs of form hover, sometimes uncomfortably, within the pictorial arena.
