Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Swelled like a billow.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of billow.

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Examples

  • Dresses billowed from the bust, ruched at the hip and dipped dizzily above and below the knee — all in wonderful silks, satins and taffetas.

    Chic Simple Tina Gaudoin 2010

  • Smoke billowed from the fatal wound a rocketeer had scored in its armor.

    365 tomorrows » 2006 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

  • Via ABCNEWS: BELGRADE (Reuters) - Smoke billowed from the American embassy in Belgrade after scores of protesters broke into the building on Thursday, cheered on by crowds outside, in a protest at U.S. support for Kosovo's independence ....

    The Jawa Report 2009

  • From the top one of the ridges such as billowed like swells of the sea that gray-green, treeless plain, Morgan looked back.

    Trail's End George W. Ogden

  • "billowed" in -- which seems to be the word to express it -- he came with such a rush and tide of life.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • "billowed" in -- which seems to be the word to express it -- he came with such a rush and tide of life.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Fire, smoke, and chunks of concrete billowed out from the villa's walls.

    Rebel Gains Fail to End Siege of Libyan City Charles Levinson 2011

  • A pillar of black smoke from a burning heap of tires ignited by the bombardment billowed over the port, and nearby the charred shells of some 250 brand new cars, all torched in the shelling, smoldered.

    NATO jets blast Libyan troops 2011

  • Love billowed through him, but he didn't know if it was a cat's love or a brother's love.

    Repatriation Berit Ellingsen 2011

  • Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Smoke billowed from the U.N. office after protesters attacked the compound.

    Mob Attacks Afghan U.N. Office 2011

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