billow 的 3 个定义
- a great wave or surge of the sea.
- any surging mass: billows of smoke.
- to rise or roll in or like billows; surge.
- to swell out, puff up, etc., as by the action of wind: flags billowing in the breeze.
- to make rise, surge, swell, or the like: A sudden wind billowed the tent alarmingly.
billow 近义词
surging mass
surge
更多billow例句
- Then, the trooper drives into her car — and it crashes upside down in a billow of smoke.
- Ladder 118 looks small on the Brooklyn Bridge; in the foreground both towers billow soot.
- 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.