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Meanings of billowing in English

Characterized by great swelling waves or surges.

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Rolling.

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Examples for "rolling"
1
Best for: Higher-rolling art patrons who want gallery quality without gallery attitude.
Wired
2
And the creatures could sleep in the shed behind the rolling chairs.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
3
NEWTON'S OPTIC:PRESENTER: WELCOME back to Flu News 24, your rolling pandemic channel.
The Irish Times
4
Hello, and welcome to today's rolling coverage of the eurozone debt crisis.
The Guardian
5
The ship was still rolling heavily in the swell after the gale.
A Voyage round the World / A book for boys
1
However, the dominos really started tumbling in the past week or so.
The South African
2
And they remain cautious, after tumbling gas prices crimped profits this year.
Reuters
3
Celtic League: All the wrong records are tumbling in Ulster this year.
The Irish Times
4
The Crown inquiry: will the house that Packer built come tumbling down?
The Guardian
5
Despite the tumbling profits, several of the banks sought to reassure investors.
The Irish Times
Usage of billowing in English
1
Thicker pulsed the lances of the aurora; changed to vast billowing curtains.
The Metal Monster
2
In the distance, a plume of dust was billowing off the road.
Any Coincidence Is / Or, The Day Julia & Cecil the Cat Faced a F...
3
She hunched, ready for combat, a hand groping at the billowing curtains.
Night of Knives
4
The spray boomed up in billowing clouds from the river far below.
New york: the novel
5
Great featherbed clouds are billowing across the sun, their edges brilliant silver.
I capture the castle
6
The slow tolling of a bell came billowing out through the silence.
The Bells of San Juan
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He was nearly past when a slight breeze set her skirts billowing.
In for a penny
8
Now she makes billowing, building-sized sculptures, made of natural and synthetic fibers.
Radio NZ
9
The 260-kiloton bomb floated gracefully down to earth on a billowing parachute.
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
10
They were billowing again, flapping noisily as they blew into the room.
Welcome to Dead House
11
The tree was lush with foliage, billowing slightly in the freshening breeze.
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
12
Tom's eyes focused in horror on the wreckage enveloped by still-billowing dust.
Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X
13
Yellowlegs was knocked away, collapsing in a heap of billowing brown robes.
Crown of Midnight
14
The billowing orange top, the garish patterned trousers and the redneck haircut.
The Irish Times
15
It was spread beneath her on the ground, billowing out like wings.
A Darker Shade of Magic
16
The isolation tent billowing in the wind like a living, breathing organism.
Gravity
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Billowing through the time
Billowing across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common