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• There’s wide bottoms, and the hills on either side have yellowy billows the sun can’t burn off.1977, Breece D’J Pancake, “Trilobites”, in The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, page 24. From the entry yellowy
• The unpegged sides of the tent flapped and billowed in the wind, rain drizzled.1942, Emily Carr, “A Cup of Tea”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry unpegged
• Plumed helmets swam along the dunes like shark fins over billows.1938, Walter Claremartin, Golden Hour of Guchee. From the entry dartle
• The roads were jammed with matatu minibuses sporting cartoonish liveries, and trucks billowing black smoke into the dazzling African light.2024 January 13, David Pilling, “Revenge of the moderators”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN…. From the entry livery
• Toxic, ink-black smoke billowed up so fast that survivors later said they could hardly find the stairways out.2020 April 30, Choe Sang-Hun, “‘We Are Not Learning Lessons’: South Korea Mourns an Avoidable Disaster”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Icheon
• The wind caught the reserve canopy, billowed it out.2007 September 5, David S. Michaels, Daniel Brenton, “March 25, 1969: Over the Gobi Desert, Outer Mongolia”, in Red Moon, Barrington…. From the entry flumpf
• A crackling cloud billowed up and Elfloq had drawn in several breathfuls before he could stagger back out of range.2001, Sean Wallace, Strange Pleasures, page 61. From the entry breathful
• The women had stuck to their busutis, billowing, clumsy dresses introduced by nineteenth-century priggish missionaries who were absolutely incompetent dress makers.1982, Feli Okoboi, The Eternal Problem, page 39. From the entry busuti
• But those who can remember attest to the fact that they came in with billowing plumes of smoke in their wake.[1958 November 18 (date delivered), Harry A. Williams, “Accomplishments in Air Pollution Control by the Automobile Industry”, in…. From the entry smoke wagon
• You pull the trigger and a dry fog of vaporized insecticide billows out as you move around the outdoor area to be debugged.1967 August, Popular Science, volume 1919, number 2, page 138. From the entry dry fog
• The thought drove him forward the more quickly : he paddled strongly with alternate feet and was soon billowing through a regular slipslop of wavelets.1949, William Kenneth Richmond, Saga of Swans: And, Harrier Over the Fen, page 7. From the entry slipslop
• A puff of wind from the open door caught and ballooned the scanties; off they sailed, out the window billowing into freedom.1944, Emily Carr, “Peach Scanties”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry balloon
• Literally nothing feels as Hogwartsy as wearing a gown and walking through Main Court as the wind makes it billow, or cycling in your gown down King’s Parade.2016, St. Catharine’s College Freshers’ Guide 2016. From the entry Hogwartsy
• All the while Fritz was yelping and rolling on the ground, Rio stood watching smoke billow from his own arm; burning a pyrokinetically Enhanced man wasn't going to work.2011, Carlton N. Brock III, Enhanced, iUniverse, page 11. From the entry pyrokinetically
• The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 507. From the entry gravid
• It became a palooza beyond even Johnnie Gold’s desires—a wonderment scattering far and wide out of the spacious mouth of the sky, billowing everywhere and expanding forever.2002, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy: A Novel, Dutton, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry palooza
• The wind can blow the bulk of a skirt between a woman's legs, or wrap her in a twist, or billow underneath so skirls of wind touch faintly, delightfully.1996 05, Gray Jacobik, “Skirts”, in Michael Pettit, editor, The Writing Path 2: Poetry and Prose from Writers' Conferences, University of…. From the entry skirl
• The Haunted Wood was full of the groans of mighty trees wrung in the tempest, and the air throbbed with the thunderous crash of billows on the distant shore.1915, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “A Book of Revelation”, in Anne of the Island, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC, page 316. From the entry wring
• A fire broke out at a recycling facility in Taoyuan's Luzhu District early Sunday, sending black smoke billowing into parts of the city's Luzhu, Zhongli and Dayuan districts, authorities said.2025 November 30, Wu Jui-chi, Matthew Mazzetta, “Fire at recycling facility blackens air in parts of Taoyuan”, in Focus Taiwan, archived…. From the entry Luzhu
• They are all sipping their cappuccini when a tall man, whose billowing cloak and singular cap identify him at once, comes up and examines their badges with a large magnifying-glass.1992 [1989], Gregory Dowling, transl., The D. Case: The Truth about the Mystery of Edwin Drood, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry cappuccini
• The huge things which had already careered into flight, they were enormous slothful sacks of billowing skin, and where the light sluiced over their bodies, they glimmered acid-blue and bronze.1986, Tanith Lee, Delirium's Mistress, New York: Daw Books, Book Two, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 240. From the entry sluice
• She then hurried to her own room, and from her small supply of clothes selected an Indian cotton dress with a high neck and long, billowing sleeves, for its unprovocativeness.1981, Lynne Reid Banks, Defy the wilderness. From the entry unprovocativeness

Meaning of billow

1. noun A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.
2. verb To surge or roll in billows.
3. verb To swell out or bulge.

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How do you use billow in a sentence?

Billow is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?”

What is a short sentence with billow?

“The wind caught the reserve canopy, billowed it out.”

What does billow mean?

Billow means a large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.