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- n a large sea wave
- v rise up as if in waves
smoke billowed up into the sky - v move with great difficulty
The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed - v rise and move, as in waves or billows
- v become inflated
- Suddenly, more than an hour after the puzzling signals began to billow forth, the Vatican's Pericle Felici, ranking Cardinal-deacon in the Sacred College, appeared at the .
- Eyewitnesses report a billow of smoke but no fire associated with the explosion - a powerful detonation which shook the ground.
- White plumes of steam billow from deep under the earth into the blue sky, and moss covers the lava-strewn ground.