(n.) A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
(n.) A great wave or flood of anything.
(v. i.) To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Wednesday, fires raged and smoke billowed from the central offices of the Guerrero state government.
(2) Though the specific billowing mitral leaflet syndrome almost certainly accounts for some of these auscultatory findings, a significant proportion may have early rheumatic heart disease.
(3) Updated at 10.40pm BST 9.12pm BST In this handout photo provided by the USGS, A satellite view shows smoke billowing from the Baiji North refinery complex on June 18, 2014 in Baiji, about 130 miles north of Baghdad.
(4) Flames could be seen through the scorched windows and billowing out of the roof of the sandstone building on the corner of Renfrew Street and Scott Street.
(5) In the Yellow Wall southern terrace the flags billowed.
(6) To assess the contributions of mitral leaflet billowing and exaggerated systolic mitral anular expansion to posterior motion of mitral leaflets recognized as mitral valve prolapse (MVP) by M-mode echocardiography, time-motion reconstructions of the anteroposterior displacement of points equally spaced along the anterior and posterior mitral leaflets were derived by computer-assisted analysis of 2-dimensional echocardiograms.
(7) Smoke billows into the air as a firefighter douses the fire at the Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building.
(8) Billowing clouds suggest a cold, windy front moving across the desert, perhaps a haboob (intense dust storm).
(9) Podolski's first touch isn't great, taking him wide left at a tight angle, but the striker toks the ball between James' legs and sends the inside of the right-hand side netting billowing.
(10) The sound of explosions continued for several minutes, and black smoke billowed into the morning sky.
(11) Last decade, he was hired by the once-venerable Corcoran Gallery, Washington’s oldest private museum, to design a $200m expansion that featured his signature billowing titanium walls and a mix of traditional and curving galleries.
(12) It is Greece's summer ritual: the arrival of the island ferry, funnels billowing, horns blaring, gangplanks screeching as wide-eyed tourists prepare to disembark.
(13) He’s only got Mignolet to beat, and fires a low, hard shot which nine times out of ten would billow the net in its centre.
(14) The data are compatible with the hypothesis that the aging process is associated with decreased mobility of the mitral valve or annulus with lesser degrees of backward bowing or billowing of the leaflets during systole.
(15) My son came up from the cabin saying he could smell smoke as black clouds billowed out of the stern hull.
(16) Fighters streamed forward from close to the hospital and fanned out into a series of extensive apartment houses, one of them billowing black smoke.
(17) Billowing occurred on the first systolic frame in 8 of 28 Marfan-MVP patients, in whom posterior leaflet chordae arose abnormally from the posterior ventricular wall, and in no other subjects.
(18) Flames and billowing black smoke could still be seen long after the 73-car train had derailed, and a fire chief likened the charred scene to a war zone.
(19) Below him pipes of natural gas pump flames into the stack, lighting a fire that will burn day and night for 17 days to bake the bricks at 1080 degrees Celsius, sending the stench of sulphur into the air in billows of steam.
(20) To test the hypothesis that mitral valve prolapse may be due either to billowing of mitral leaflets into the left atrium or to dynamic expansion of the mitral anulus, mitral leaflet and annular dimensions and motion were measured by computer-assisted two-dimensional echocardiography in 35 normal adults and 48 subjects with auscultatory and M-mode echocardiographic evidence of mitral prolapse.
Wallow
Definition:
(n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
(n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
(n.) To wither; to fade.
(v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
(n.) A kind of rolling walk.
Example Sentences:
(1) University websites wallowed in self-congratulation in the wake of the REF, where experts assessed research in 36 subject areas, looking at quality, the infrastructure that supported it, and its impact on the outside world.
(2) Let them wallow in the content that Bolt provides them, carefully calibrated to both infuriate Australia’s dwindling bigoted minority while reassuring them.
(3) As the turbulent commercial radio sector enters another new phase, Park wants to sweep away the thinking that has left too many of his colleagues wallowing in self-pity, and turn his fire on a familiar target.
(4) Her parents divorced when she was young, money was tight and there was no cable TV to wallow in.
(5) Unashamedly wallowing in pop Celebrating its 18th birthday, this year's V line-up reads like a typical, if solidly suburban, teenage house party playlist.
(6) The outrage is thumped home by this coincidence of timing: that the Premier League has reached its quarter century, now wallowing in £2.8bn annual television deals, with clubs spending £50m on right-backs , in the same year that the authorities have finally brought criminal charges for those deaths 28 years ago.
(7) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
(8) The message is loud and clear to all dictators: you can arrest the opposition every other day, pass draconian laws and let your country wallow in poverty, as long as your troops are available for us when we need to go on a peace keeping mission in, say, Somalia.
(9) It was 12.24am, local time, when Alessandro Diamanti walked forward for the final, decisive kick and, when it was all done, Italy had booked a semi-final against Germany while England were wallowing in the familiar sense of deja vu that comes with another harrowing disappointment in a penalty shoot-out.
(10) When inspiration strikes, you have to hope that the other 10 people on stage will give you space to wallow in your "moment".
(11) Other newspapers, too, wallowed in the rumours of orgiastic high court judges, sado-masochistic cabinet ministers and aristocratic sex slaves wearing cards that read 'If my services don't please you, whip me'.
(12) Kevin and Perry Go Large is an excuse to wallow vicariously in the misery of adolescence.
(13) There, you wallow in yesteryear’s fabulosity, cast off by someone whose spending habits you’re morally outraged by but whose taste you can’t fault.
(14) He says his research allowed him to wallow in 70s conspiracy films such as The Conversation, The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor, "though reading Pynchon and the Illuminatus!
(15) To wallow in it would be fun but sullying, and also obscures the fact that Simmonds has done us a favour.
(16) "The pursuit of judicial refuge may produce a paradoxical effect: in the short term a rich infusion of talent for the benches; but beyond that, critics argue, the future looks bleak.Sympathy for barristers – popularly perceived as wallowing in claret, six-figure salaries and refresher fees – is limited.
(17) When he wasn't writing, he was usually swimming, most often in his moat, or wallowing in the massive cast-iron bath that lived at the back of the house.
(18) It’s so routine.” Media coverage of climate change in Fiji doesn’t have the luxury of wallowing in the sort of cosseted denialism seen in the US, Britain or Australia.
(19) It would be amazing to be able to relish the moment and wallow in some exciting new technology and upcoming entertainment, but unfortunately it's all coming loaded with all this woolly, drab bullshit around it.
(20) A sly kick at the rear of Winston Reid’s legs prompted the winger’s second yellow card – and an early wallow in the Radox.