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- noun Plural form of
billow . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
billow .
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Examples
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Smoke billows from the two, primitive in-ground barbecue ovens.
A wedding and christening in rural Oaxaca: The mandate of tradition 2009
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One of the girls on her knees at the straightaway points toward the Martin place, where smoke billows from the windowless front.
Hopefulness 2010
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One of the girls on her knees at the straightaway points toward the Martin place, where smoke billows from the windowless front.
Hopefulness 2010
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Smoke billows from the two, primitive in-ground barbecue ovens.
A wedding and christening in rural Oaxaca: The mandate of tradition 2009
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One of the girls on her knees at the straightaway points toward the Martin place, where smoke billows from the windowless front.
Hopefulness 2010
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Whereat the sea boiled in billows and the coffer of alabaster rose to the surface.
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That good lady was staring helplessly at Anne, apparently engulfed in billows of new ideas.
Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919
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Gazlowe coughed, smoke coming from his mouth in short billows.
The Shattering Christie Golden 2010
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Gazlowe coughed, smoke coming from his mouth in short billows.
The Shattering Christie Golden 2010
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The bounding backs of the billows were my only rocking-horse when I was a child, and dearly I loved to ride them when a fresh breeze was blowing.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 Various 1841
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September 3, 2011