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billowy

/bil-oh-ee/US // ˈbɪl oʊ i //UK // (ˈbɪləʊɪ) //

波浪形的,波浪型,波浪形,波浪型的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    bil·low·i·er, bil·low·i·est.

    • : characterized by or full of billows; surging: a rough, billowy sea.

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Examples

  • I was wearing a rather huge, billowy Maxi skirt and I must have lost track of exactly where it all was while on loo.

  • She was wearing black tights and a billowy white shirt, and she was very lost.

  • Our stage was the whole front of the play barn and we had three big white sheets that made a billowy curtain.

  • It blew out of the canyon-mouth like a gust from a chimney, rolling over and over in billowy masses.

  • Had there been a thaw, the surface would have hardened, but now they were forced to move the logs through loose, billowy drifts.

  • The white steps were in tune with the billowy clouds, and the scarlet pillar-box at the corner had a friendly, human smile.

  • Forest and open country lay spread out beneath, extending away in billowy roll for miles upon miles into dim, misty distance.

  • Across rolling "downs" of soft, billowy snow we floundered for twenty-four miles, on the two following days.