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