billowy

[ UK /bˈɪlə‍ʊi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by great swelling waves or surges
    billowy storm clouds
    surging waves
    the restless billowing sea
    surging waves
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How To Use billowy In A Sentence

  • According to the show's host, big and billowy are this year's watchwords for bridal wear, and green could be this year's hot colour - despite old myths about the colour's potential to influence a marriage in the wrong way.
  • At rare intervals the forest would fall away on either hand, opening up a wide view of cultivated fields, sweeping grandly down in long stripes of tender green to the billowy verdure of the broad savanna, where silvery-sparkling lakes lay imbedded and great round "hummocks" of dark trees uprose like islands in the grassy sea. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
  • Saudi women don a billowy black cloak called an abaya, along with a black scarf and veil over the face.
  • With just some meager splotches of blue peeking through billowy cumulus clouds, I'm not sure I'd call this photo "colorful," yet it's difficult not to be struck by the multihued white picket fence, a study of light and shadow optimistically evocative, says Ms. Lyden, of "The American Dream. Trained Toward the Heavens
  • The radiant curiosity that finds adventure in simple things:the mystery of billowy clouds, the miracle of snowflakes, the magic of growing flowers.
  • billowy storm clouds
  • The Brezon -- _brisant_, breaking wave -- he took as type of the billowy form of limestone Alps in general, and his analysis of it was serviceable and substantially correct. The Life of John Ruskin
  • 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. Further Pavlova
  • The Brezon ” brisant, breaking wave ” he took as type of the billowy form of limestone Alps in general, and his analysis of it was serviceable and substantially correct. The Life of John Ruskin
  • The menu ranges from the complex (shredded veal shank encased in billowy ravioli parcels) to the simple (griddled seared yellowfin tuna). Times, Sunday Times
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