Object

• cloud: Warm sunshine, blue skies with soft white billowing clouds.

• smoke: It burned for about a week, billowing thick black smoke into the air.

• sail: It is used to describe wind billowing the sails on a ship, providing the impetus to move the vessel across the water.

• curtain: There's nothing like billowing white linen curtains on a hot summers day!

• dress: She is holding the side of the hat with one hand and her billowing dress with the other.

• steam: This showed its heyday - a man in a top hat and tails hurries past toward a train billowing steam.

Converse of object

• make: We will make a large silk cloth billow to create the effect of a sail.

• watch: McGlashan just loved to watch the smoke billow from the piles of flaming furniture on the front grass of some hard case or other.

• foam: Aria ( " Rolling in foaming billows " ) Bass trombone doubles contrabassoon in tutti passages.

Adjective modifier

• great: Behind his bird's tail, the great billow of dust was sweeping down upon the Fortress of the World's Edge.

Modifies a noun

• roar: They reached the deep where angry billows roar; She for a purpose dropped her only oar.

Noun used with modifier

• smoke: A cloud of smoke billows up through the air.

• thy: We may feel that " All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me " .

• cloud: In the seventh shot, plumes of white cloud billow out from a factory at a borax mine, out of sight below.

Preposition: in

• breeze: In summer the camino, the dirt road from the main road, had been yellow dust billowing in the breeze.

• wind: The full-length black trench coat he was wearing was billowing wildly in the wind.

Preposition: of

• smoke: I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.

Preposition: from

• chimney: Balls of fire and plumes of thick brown smoke were billowing from the chimney.

• window: He looked up to see smoke billowing from a fourth story window with a woman leaning out holding a baby.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• up: Flames danced in the night air, smoke billowing up to join the clouds that hung in the sky above the building.