I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a billow of smoke (= a large amount of smoke from a fire )
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The green, fresh leaves will burn slowly, with billows of smoke.
smoke billows (= large amounts come from a fire )
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She noticed smoke billowing out of one of the bedrooms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Smoke billowed out of the chimney.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Car parks, stuffed with cars, seem to billow up in places like fabric, as the wind catches them underneath.
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Clouds of smoke billowed out so the teams crouched down to avoid inhaling the poisonous fumes.
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Plumes of radioactive smoke were billowing around the helicopter.
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She laughed and spun around and gave me a look of her yellow leg when the skirt billowed out.
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The cuffs of his gray trousers billow .
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The screens were around the bed and the draught from the door set them billowing like sails.
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Thick smoke billowed up a narrow staircase and smothered the sleeping youngsters in their second-floor bedroom.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A farmer was burning straw, the yellow billows of smoke spiralling lazily upward.
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In grey billows, it rolled into nothing, into the mist which was already descending.
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In order to stop it going out he drew hard on it and exhaled billows of smoke into the car.
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The kids and Bill exhale billows of steam as they stand around; resting up for the next charge through the brush.
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Their fingers skim on the silk as the unwieldy billows of parachute flatten like sea-waves, oiled, folded in sevens.
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Then she disappeared beneath the billows.