How to Use billow in a Sentence

billow

1 of 2 noun

• Billows of smoke poured out of the burning building.
• Early on, fake tear gas billows through the flaps of the tent.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2023
• Photos of the fire show a billow of smoke coming from one side of the building.
  — Alejandro Serrano, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Along the horizon, the road meets a billow of clouds, then fades to a white nothingness.
  — Judi Ketteler, Good Housekeeping, 7 Mar. 2023
• Most are crowned with billows of frosting: The higher the peaks, the more crowd-pleasing the result.
  — Melissa Clark Melissa Clark Melissa Clark, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2017
• The engine explodes into flames and black smoke billows from the jet.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• Fuzzy ashen mold billows around wheels of cheese stacked on wooden planks at La Ferme de L’Abérieux.
  — Time, 22 Sep. 2017
• The red curtains from a stage in the gym billow as wood, bricks, and pieces of the building rush toward the running children.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2020
• Video posted to social media of the scene shows part of the crane on fire atop the building as clouds of black smoke billow above.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 26 July 2023
• All chicken soups are alike at the start: a dead bird in water, boiling flesh, a billow of steam, grains of salt in the cook’s palm.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• There’s a faint whirring noise as the blade sinks into the skeleton, and clouds of coral dust billow in the surrounding water.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 6 June 2018
• Boot-heel billows of trail dust from a gravel parking lot.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 2018
• When the stones are red-hot, water is thrown onto them, raising billows of light steam.
  — Rachel Polonsky, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
• Video footage of the crash posted on Facebook shows people walking away from the plane as thick clouds of smoke billow from the wreckage.
  — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 16 Aug. 2019
• Air bubbles billow to the surface and seemingly burst in time with the music.
  — Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
• Wearing a flowing red dress that billows in the wind, D’Arcy stands at a railing and watches her staffers make their way to the river’s edge.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• In videos that appear to have been taken at the scene and shared on social media, billows of smoke could be seen rising from the site.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• When the dining room’s two sets of bifolding doors are open, the footprint seems to expand as salty breeze billows in.
  — Kelly Dawson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020
• Oye rocks braids of all kinds; from those that are green dyed and cheekbone-length to cornrows that cascade into a billow of coils.
  — Akili King, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2020
• As plumes of smoke billow out of Canada’s forests, some may be wondering why many of the fires are being allowed to burn unchecked.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 1 July 2023
• In the clip, shared by Jordan Yaney of 14 News on Twitter, smoke and debris billow in the air seconds after the explosion rocks the street.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2022
• The big brawls occur inside cartoon-style billows of smoke.
  — Colin Covert, idahostatesman, 12 Apr. 2018
• When the dome is raised, a billow of delicious-smelling smoke rises from the array of crackers, cheese, grapes and sliced chorizo.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 15 Nov. 2021
• The scent, a mix of the creamy coconut from a fancy sunscreen and laundry musk, is luscious, and feels like warm, cascading billows of wind on the skin.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 31 Aug. 2017
• The vessel, which is still docked at the G street pier, ignited Friday, sending billows of smoke into the air.
  — David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• Thrown canisters and grenades of tear gas produce clouds of powder with an appearance akin to smoke that billow in the air like a mist.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Scientific American, 23 June 2020
• With time, some of those familiar bubbly clouds common of the midday billow high.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2020
• This heavily edited version of the video shows police arriving on the scene as smoke billows from a group of electric trucks tucked in the back of the lot.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 20 Apr. 2023
• In Delmas, billows of black smoke from burning tires blanketed the sky while a major road was blocked by an oversize truck.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• All of the shades blend, billow and balloon upward in a watercolor dreamscape, and a handful of planes fly through, the scene suddenly transposed onto the young Jiro’s awed face.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023

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billow

2 of 2 verb

• The ship caught fire, and thick, black smoke billowed out of it.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
• In the case of the Bronx fire, a space heater ignited the fire and smoke billowed through the building.
  — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
• But after the boom came the bust, and the garment billowed out of the mainstream in the decades that followed.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2023
• Just look for the smoke billowing around Rockville Pike and First Street.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• Smoke billowed from the roof of the home as of 6:45 p.m. Thursday as siding on the house was charred with ash.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2023
• Dark black smoke could be seen billowing from the plant.
  — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
• But here, it's paired with a billowing maxi skirt to complete the look.
  — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
• The billowing sleeves are extra roomy and have a foldover cuff that adds a stylish touch.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• Photos and video from the scene along show a massive black plume of smoke billowing from the plant.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2023
• Video from the scene showed flames and black smoke billowing hundreds of feet into the air.
  — CBS News, 24 Mar. 2023
• Smoke billowed over the city of Pskov, Russia on Tuesday night.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• The fire sent clouds of black smoke billowing skyward that could be seen from afar.
  — TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
• Smoke billowed from within the crowded camp, with mosque minarets in the backdrop.
  — Nasser Nasser and Josef Federman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
• Notice the billowing clouds over the Atlantic from last night’s storms.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2023
• To go alongside, find Cos’ billowing blouse and a pair of Birkenstock clogs to match.
  — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023
• Images from the scene showed flames, a charred building and smoke billowing into the sky.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 18 July 2023
• Videos from the scene show green and red smoke billowing into the air and signs decrying apartheid.
  — Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• Again, Ford continued to drive the bus with smoke billowing past his face.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Clouds of fog in neon yellow and bright fuchsia gave way to flowing silks and capes that billowed like parachutes in the wind.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2023
• Flames and smoke could be seen billowing from the ancient Route 9 structure.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 3 June 2023
• The explosions sent smoke billowing into the air and ground traffic to a halt on busy streets.
  — Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• Style with flowy, billowing pants from Toteme and a pair of sleek, suede sandals from St. Agni.
  — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 14 July 2023
• The snowy powder blended with billowing clouds of dust.
  — Zeynep Karatas, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
• The plink of a piano wafted in from the Music Hall by the water’s edge, and on a nearby point, the American flag billowed in the breeze.
  — Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2023
• Videos showed giant plumes of smoke billowing from the apartment.
  — Isabel Debre The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2023
• To be sure, the historic surge in rates has billowed X’s interest expense from a headwind to a gale.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
• Live footage from the Gaza Strip showed black smoke billowing from the territory.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 1 Dec. 2023
• Video from Nakhon Nayok shows a huge blaze covering the mountain at night, the fire glowing red in the dark and smoke billowing in plumes.
  — Kocha Olarn, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• As the fires rapidly grew, smoke billowed into the middle and upper layers of the troposphere, three to five miles above the ground.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• That fire, which more than a year later has not been fully extinguished, billowed thick, dark smoke for months.
  — Lee Hedgepeth, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024