billowed

• “Dresses billowed from the bust, ruched at the hip and dipped dizzily above and below the knee — all in wonderful silks, satins and taffetas.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Chic Simple

• “Smoke billowed from the fatal wound a rocketeer had scored in its armor.”

  365 tomorrows » 2006 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

• “Via ABCNEWS: BELGRADE (Reuters) - Smoke billowed from the American embassy in Belgrade after scores of protesters broke into the building on Thursday, cheered on by crowds outside, in a protest at U.S. support for Kosovo's independence ....”

  The Jawa Report

• “From the top one of the ridges such as billowed like swells of the sea that gray-green, treeless plain, Morgan looked back.”

  Trail's End

• “billowed" in -- which seems to be the word to express it -- he came with such a rush and tide of life.”

  Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907

• “Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Smoke billowed from the U.N. office after protesters attacked the compound.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Mob Attacks Afghan U.N. Office

• “Fire, smoke, and chunks of concrete billowed out from the villa's walls.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Rebel Gains Fail to End Siege of Libyan City

• “A pillar of black smoke from a burning heap of tires ignited by the bombardment billowed over the port, and nearby the charred shells of some 250 brand new cars, all torched in the shelling, smoldered.”

  USA Today: NATO jets blast Libyan troops

• “Love billowed through him, but he didn't know if it was a cat's love or a brother's love.”

  Fictionaut: Repatriation

• “Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press People ran for cover as dust billowed when a helicopter carrying Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani took off after an election rally in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, Saturday.”

  The Wall Street Journal: India in Pictures

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