BILLOW in a Sentence
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36 example sentences for BILLOW, such as:
1. Smoke billowed from the burning building.
2. The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them.
3. Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
4. Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.
5. But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks.
2. The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them.
3. Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
4. Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.
5. But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks.
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Meanings and Examples of BILLOW
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billow
n. a large sea wave
v. become inflated
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 These hang on the wave's ridge; to these the yawning billow shows ground amid the surge, where the sea churns with sand.
2 The helmsman is dashed away and rolled forward headlong; her as she lies the billow sends spinning thrice round with it, and engulfs in the swift whirl.
3 The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea.
4 But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks.
5 The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
6 Her gray organdie dress, with its cherry-colored satin sash, disguised with its billows and ruffles how childishly undeveloped her body was, and the yellow hat with long cherry streamers made her creamy skin glow.
7 Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel of the Ages.
8 Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.
9 The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
10 No perceptible face or front did it have; no conceivable token of either sensation or instinct; but undulated there on the billows, an unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life.
11 Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread.
12 The ship was sailing plungingly; astern the billows rolled in riots.
13 In turn, jerkingly raised and lowered by the rolling billows, the towing resistance of the log caused the old reelman to stagger strangely.
14 The sea was quiet now, and swelled lazily in broad billows that melted into one another and did not break except upon the beach in little foamy crests that coiled back like slow, white serpents.
15 The ocean seeks to lead it astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north.
Example Sentence:
1 The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray.
2 Standing over the air vent, Marilyn Monroe tried vainly to control her billowing skirts.
3 The curtains billowed madly as the wind caught them.
4 Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
5 Smoke billowed from the burning building.