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billowing

/bil-oh/US // ˈbɪl oʊ //UK // (ˈbɪləʊ) //

波涛汹涌,波浪形的,波浪式的,波涛汹涌的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a great wave or surge of the sea.
    • : any surging mass: billows of smoke.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make rise, surge, swell, or the like: A sudden wind billowed the tent alarmingly.

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Examples

  • The trees creak in the wind, the air smells of purity, and my eyes jump among the beckoning billows of untracked powder.

  • Fleeing residents screamed and moments later an ambulance sped toward the billowing smoke.

  • “With a gun in my hand, I wept,” he says, eyes red and cigarette smoke billowing.

  • Workers on the iron horse shoveled coal into a boiler, which propelled the engine and sent steam and smoke billowing into the sky.

  • There was a sense of ease in the loose white shirt-dresses, billowing skirts, and roomy pajama pants.

  • There were no billowing sheets or dramatic scores to lead them through it.

  • The white road lay like a carelessly flung thread on the billowing plateau land.

  • There was an instant of quiet, then dust spurted from the deep hole, followed by billowing clouds of pulverized rock.

  • From where Tam hung he could see billowing smoke clouds appear in every direction.

  • They fell backwards in a sudden expansion of rubbery wings, as though they had stumbled into billowing dark canvas.

  • They leapt athwart clouds of smoke which drove, billowing, across the sky, sprayed by showers of sparks.