billow
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The region's oil export terminals have been hit several times in recent weeks, triggering massive fires that billow plumes of toxic black smoke into the atmosphere.
From Barron's • May 3, 2026
There’s nothing like watching as clouds billow over Doi Suthep, the mountain overlooking Chiang Mai, before gushing onto the city’s durian- and diesel-fumed streets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was in northern New Jersey, and watched the smoke billow from the World Trade Center.
From Slate • Oct. 29, 2025
Libonati remained in his vehicle and escaped, watching black smoke billow in his rearview mirror as his childhood neighborhood went up in flames.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025
Then they began to billow out toward the ground, as though they were carrying some heavy load and were about to split.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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