How To Use Billowy In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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Saudi women don a billowy black cloak called an abaya, along with a black scarf and veil over the face.
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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
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The radiant curiosity that finds adventure in simple things:the mystery of billowy clouds, the miracle of snowflakes, the magic of growing flowers.
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billowy storm clouds
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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
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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
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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
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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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They have already mown the hay in part; and the billowy tracts of greyish green, where no flowers are now in bloom, supply a restful groundwork to those brilliant patches of diapered fioriture.
New Italian sketches
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“It’s gotta be jarring to see somebody dressed up in a billowy linen shirt, drop-front hemp britches, and a wide woven sash, with a big tuque on his head, driving an old, beat-up Buick Century,” he said.
One Big Table
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A white shirtdress with touches of black, silver and aqua was particularly billowy in shape.
Word of advice for spring wardrobe: caution
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And he was wearing a billowy pink dress and carrying a wand, just like Glinda the Good Witch in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 9: THROUGH THE VEIL
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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
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No other land is in sight, only an ocean without end and its own billowy breath rising as cumulus clouds that seem far more substantive than the tiny landforms below.
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I could write a book on the Decline and Fall of the Petticoat, beginning with the billowy white muslin variety, and working up to the present slinky messaline affair.
Roast Beef, Medium
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All very well to feel nourished in the billowy comfort of my nightie; huffing myself into work clothes this morning took almost an hour longer than expected!
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All very well to feel nourished in the billowy comfort of my nightie; huffing myself into work clothes this morning took almost an hour longer than expected!
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It was quite billowy, and the sleeves ballooned at the wrists.
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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.
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There's a great sense of fantasy about billowy clothes.
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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.
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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
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His billowy-sleeved shirt was of a red silk, with a single row of silver bullet buttons ornamenting the placket.
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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
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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
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There's no lawn to mow, no billowy shrubs to prune, few flowers to fuss over.