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How to use billow in a sentence

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The umbrellaed tables in the cafe-lounge are separated from the dining room by sheer curtains which billow like giant sails on a calm sea.
The skylights billow like sheets flapping in the wind and dancing curtains shine green and faintly red.
She opened the frosted glass window, letting in a billow of sticky air, and caught a glimpse of the embassy's manicured garden.
After hours of watching the black smoke billow over the top of the mountain, we stood horrified as the flames made their appearance.
Thick clouds of black smoke billow out of each of the vehicles, sometimes coming from the exhaust pipe.
You would know your car is overheating when steam starts to billow from your engine compartment.
Beneath the widow's peak of dyed blond hair, his face, as faces do, is beginning to pucker and billow.
Clouds of smoke billow out of the door when you enter the Botanica Papa Chango in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
When we got out on the street we saw a billow of white smoke and the sound was deafening.
I didn't think I was tired quite yet, but as I watched the white smoke billow up in little threads above the fire, my eyelids grew heavy.
There was a giant explosion, a flash of blinding light, and the whole nighttime desert seemed to billow up into a boiling mushroom cloud.
Everything seems to billow, there are clouds of this and drifts of that, totally in harmony with the languor of a drowsy summer day.
Divson lit up a cigarette in his home, letting the purple smoke billow to the ceiling and permeate the drywall exterior.
The winds began to rise around Elisa, making her clothes billow and tossing her hair back.
Such gowns, by the late 1850s, had hoops, wire contraptions which replaced the multitude of petticoats and which caused women's dresses to billow out even further.
In some areas, should the winds change and the volcanoes' acidic smoke billow over farmland, acid rain can destroy an entire harvest.
For the Paul Ryan effect, buy your trousers in sizes at least five times too big, so that they billow in the wind like MC Hammer's pants.
Indeed, it is from the penalty spot that the majority of goalkeepers have made the opponents' net billow.
Amplitude: Enter a percentage value to determine how much the flag will billow.
Forming consists in making fluffy of the soil by means of lister and to her forming at the using of the billow driven hydraulically.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They are in circumstances in which the ripple passes into the wavelet, and the wavelet into the billow.
Already the distant roar of the billow was heard, proving that it had begun to break.
Then there was a bound, as if the boat had been shot from a catapult, and the billow fell.
Here he was launched on the shingle by a billow, and washed high up on the beach.
There was a gentle flash of quick light that was smothered by a billow of smoke.
Now she was hid from sight in the trough of the sea, now she rose to the summit of a billow.
The billow and the wind And the still waters will sweep us away Mercilessly!
He becomes restless as the ocean, impelled by every contrary wind, and tost about by every sportive billow.
They plowed through a great billow of sand at the end of the engine house.
It flared briefly and let out with a billow of thick red smoke.
The interior of the house was a billow of red, white, and blue.
But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks.
It made a little billow there, that was like her free spirit.
High up in one building curtains billow from glassless windows and gusts of wind slam doors at irregular intervals.
In despair, casting about frantically among the magazines, he had sent it to THE BILLOW, a society weekly in San Francisco.
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