BILLOWING in a Sentence

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36 example sentences for BILLOWING, such as:

1. Smoke billowed from the burning building.
2. The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them.
3. The billowing smoke was filled with horizontal flashes.
4. Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
5. Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.

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 Meanings and Examples of BILLOWING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
billowing
 a.  swelling out in waves; surging; stormy; affected by storms
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  "I'm just sick and tired of that old hospital," she said, settling her billowing skirts and tying her bonnet bow more firmly under her chin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  Now she would never have to stand on the lawn and see smoke billowing from the beloved house and hear the roar of flames as the roof fell in.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  Little by little the scene grew plain: towering, black buildings here and there, long rows of shops and sheds, little railways branching everywhere, bare gray cinders underfoot and oceans of billowing black smoke above.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
5  The billowing smoke was filled with horizontal flashes.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  Alcides broke forth in anger, and with a bound hurled himself sheer amid the flames, where the smoke rolls billowing and voluminous, and the cloud surges black through the enormous den.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
7  The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  Her gray organdie dress, with its cherry-colored satin sash, disguised with its billows and ruffles how childishly undeveloped her body was, and the yellow hat with long cherry streamers made her creamy skin glow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel of the Ages.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
10  Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
11  The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. Sunset.
12  No perceptible face or front did it have; no conceivable token of either sensation or instinct; but undulated there on the billows, an unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. Squid.
13  Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
14  The ship was sailing plungingly; astern the billows rolled in riots.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
15  In turn, jerkingly raised and lowered by the rolling billows, the towing resistance of the log caused the old reelman to stagger strangely.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
Example Sentence:
1  Standing over the air vent, Marilyn Monroe tried vainly to control her billowing skirts.
2  The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray.
3  The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them.
4  Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
5  Smoke billowed from the burning building.