billow

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I'd love to know the carbon billow produced in a 5 social media session.

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Quick take

a large sea wave

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of billow gathered in one view.

noun

a large sea wave

verb

rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up into the sky"

verb

move with great difficulty; "The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for billow.

noun

a large sea wave

verb

rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up into the sky"

verb

move with great difficulty; "The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed"

verb

rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward"

verb

become inflated; "The sails ballooned"

Example sentences

I'd love to know the carbon billow produced in a 5 social media session.

"I thought that as well, especially with the detail in the article about 'billows of metallic-tasting snow'.

Good shirts can be purchased in your choice of arm length and neck size; from there any half-decent tailor or seamstress can take in any 'billow' in the body and sleeves so it fits perfectly.

Additionally, the teardrop shape reduces the tendency of air to billow off the trailing edge of the wing in favour of kinda sticking to the wing's surface and following its curvature.

My arms are really long and my neck/shoulders are really broad relative to my height, so even slim or "extreme slim" dress shirts have a tendency to billow out of my pants unless I have them taken in, and I always have to have the arms slimmed significantly as well.

Though one of his earlier novels, it already has his distinctive humor and a command of English you could drown in, like this:"A growing warmth suffused the horizon, and soon the sun emerged and looked out over the cloud waste, flinging bars of ruddy light across it, staining its folds and billow caps with blushes, purpling the shaded troughs between, and glorifying the massy vapor palaces and cathedrals with a wasteful splendor of all blendings and combinations of rich coloring.