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Example sentences for "billowed"

Lexicographically close words:
billions; billionth; billon; billot; billow; billowes; billowing; billows; billowy; bills
  1. For the present, several low hills, like grass-sown waves, billowed between her and it.

  2. In the distance, mountains seemed to float like spirit guardians of hill-children; and desert dunes billowed through irrigated garden oases, like rivers of gold boiling up from magic mines.

  3. Over its surface, pockmarked with gopher holes, tumbleweed rolled and billowed and stacked against rocks and fallen timber in uncanny, shifting masses.

  4. On either side billowed fields of tall, untrodden grass and beyond the fields lumped the foot-hills.

  5. Thou cloud of billowed lace, a shield befitting her pure heart!

  6. Ah, whither flown the fleecy summer clouds, To bank, and fall to earth in billowed light, And paint the winter’s brown to spangled white?

  7. Our carriages billowed and bobbed and pitched and humped themselves until I got out and walked to keep from being lamed for life.

  8. Her pink frock billowed out into flowing, statuesque folds as she stood, like a figurehead, gazing off at the mountains.

  9. The wind billowed her skirts, fretted her hair into a swirl of tawny brown, cooled her cheeks.

  10. Bare hills saluted him; the beacon height with its great wooden cross stood out against the sky; mile on mile of wooded land billowed out before him, clouded with a blue haze where the domes of the trees rose innumerably rank on rank.

  11. A generous sky piled its blue dome with mountainous clouds that billowed up above the horizon.

  12. Is there anything purer, holier than a mother holding her dimpled babe against her billowed breast?

  13. Think of the billowed years that must have rolled between these shores.

  14. Billowed the air with sudden storm that moment.

  15. Illustration: The chute billowed out as he hit the ground, and he pulled hard at the cords to get his footing] Then the small chute billowed and pulled out glider wings.

  16. Leighton and another judge stood in the ring's center, and around them billowed the heterogeneous array.

  17. Out billowed the sheep in a ragged scramble.

  18. This coign of safety billowed outward from the pattern towards the building like an arm of cumulus cloud and the top of it rose like a column to a height above my range.

  19. The dead area billowed above the rooftop out of my range; from what little I could survey of the dark psi area, it must have been shaped sort of like an angel-food cake, except that the central hole did not go all the way down.

  20. Rings of fire danced across the rollers and dense dark smoke billowed in the room.

  21. The fumes hovering over the dish billowed into a huge yellow blossom, and the table erupted with a cheer.

  22. The flames billowed along the edge of the field, and the crackling of the cane swelled into a roar as a carpet of red crept up the hillside.

  23. A little harmonium groaned gallantly, and Mr. Scobell billowed up the aisle from the vestry.

  24. These latter subtended the level ground and swelled and billowed under waves of colourless light that raced free as the wind over another year's hay harvest.

  25. Such a spot he knew to the lee of the great hill; and now he stumbled forward, while the black edge of the thunderstorm billowed and tumbled to the zenith, and swallowed up the daylight as it came.

  26. The alkali dust, swirled back by a little breeze, billowed up and choked him.

  27. The sight was wonderful, but here the dust billowed in clouds.

  28. The energetic Mrs. Wopp had accompanied her commands to Moses by a wide sweeping of arms, and from these ample arms had billowed yards of sheeting to cover from the ruinous soot her treasured parlor possessions.

  29. Range exalted over range Billowed their enormous spines, And we heard the priestly pines Hum the wisdom of their change.

  30. Out there the white cloud billowed and gleamed in the sunlight.

  31. On the horizon a vast cloud mountain billowed upward from the watery surface, white, and pink and many shades of violet.

  32. From it the lambent torrent poured; billowed down upon us.

  33. Not exactly," smiled Maria, plucking ruefully at the native Mother Hubbard, which billowed hideously about her in the zero gravity.

  34. Fresh air billowed in around him, and he could see stars in a night sky outside.

  35. It twisted and writhed like a great shadowy serpent, then broadened and billowed out in shining folds and whirls.

  36. A thick, dirty-red cloud of dust shot upward, spread and billowed and began to settle slowly toward the ground again.

  37. The dry spores within billowed out and up like the smoke of a shell-explosion, spurting skyward for twenty feet and more.

  38. She wore no other ornament save for a white flower in her hair, and her shoulders and arms were almost as white as the soft tulle that billowed against them.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "billowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.