billow

How to use billow in a sentence

A plume of gray smoke billows into the air and Lyoya immediately goes still.

The helicopters kicked up huge plumes of powder that had fallen Monday night, and the aircraft quickly disappeared in a billow of snow.

Then, the trooper drives into her car — and it crashes upside down in a billow of smoke.

The wave—a billow broken to atoms, yet still retaining all its weight and motive force—overwhelmed the boat and passed on.

Like the surging of an ocean billow, it seemed to sweep over her; and then suddenly she screamed, and sank back upon the pillow.

Death rode those cold waters, and every billow was a yawning grave.

It came up like a sonorous billow, swelling as it advanced, and becoming more and more distinct.

The schooner washed her nose in a curving billow that came inboard and swept aft.

He is restless as the ocean, impelled by every contrary wind, and tossed about by every sportive billow.

He becomes restless as the ocean, impelled by every contrary wind, and tost about by every sportive billow.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985