Billows

Synonyms for "billows" (17 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Noun(4 words)

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Related words (8)

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8 entries
emotional contagionmassmass movementmotionphenomenonsocial phenomenonundulationvolume change

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Collocations

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billowing cloudsbillows across the skybillows of fabricbillows of fogbillows of smokebillows of steambillows outwardmassive billowswind driven billows

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

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East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen.

Source: tatoeba (6779594)

The shattered oars start forth; / round swings the prow, and lets the waters sweep / the broadside. Onward comes a mountain heap / of billows, gaunt, abrupt.

Source: tatoeba (6780109)

"Beware... / Yet first 'twere best these billows to allay. / Far other coin hereafter ye shall pay / for crimes like these."

Source: tatoeba (6783253)

In a far retreat / there lies a haven; towards the deep doth stand / an island, on whose jutting headlands beat / the broken billows, shivered into sleet.

Source: tatoeba (6783724)

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