What is "billowed"

Usage examples of "billowed".

A rush of scent billowed up, dust dancing as wind caught and worried at dried summer milfoil, placed at the top.

Long gray cloaks bordered in crimson billowed from their shoulders and wide-brimmed hats with a single crimson feather sat cocked upon their heads.

Smoke billowed out of the rock, then dispersed across a scattering of lifeless dark bodies.

The smell of scorched stone and burning wool and hair billowed up from the portico, up in front of the overhanging balcony in a billow of heat and smoke.

Down to the grids of light that marked cities, and then sun-fire billowed out in circles, rising in domes of incandescence toward the stratosphere .

He flung up a hand against the wave of dust and grit that billowed toward his firing slit, and coughed at the thick brickdust stink of it as it billowed over him.

The milk-white fronds dipped and billowed across the huge marsh, tinged with blood-crimson.

More smoke billowed out as they fired, a ripple of red tongues of fire from left to right.

Gunsmoke billowed out from among the grey rocks and cannonballs kicked up spouts of foam along the Gull's waterline or punched holes in her sails.

His standard billowed in a stiff wind, the rake of the snow leopard's claw that marked the proud warriors of the Pechanek clan.

Thick clots of dust made strange and tangled shapes where they billowed across an expanse of blackness.

Smoke from the village, from their house, billowed up into the clear sky.

As they pressed on, the plastic curtain beside them billowed suddenly, as if caught in a draft.

Far off, in the grayness at the end of the spotlight’s reach, black fabric billowed, revealing a familiar form running down the main aisle of the basilica.

The point billowed, as if feeding on itself, unraveling across the sky in a dilating radius of blinding white.