Example Sentences

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Billows of smoke and bright orange flames can be seen rising from Bridgend Industrial Estate.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2024

All the while, Billows has served as an assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine at the IU School of Medicine.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2022

Billows of smoke rise from a deforested section of the Amazon jungle in Porto Velho, Brazil, 24 August.

From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2019

When he slinks back to New Jersey to live with his mother, he discovers that her home has been threatened with foreclosure by Tygen Billows, the once and forever frontman of Juggernaut’s old nemesis, Mouthfeel.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2018

Billows of smoke poured out, rising and rising, like a black tower building itself into the sky.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat