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Explore Billowy through 9 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like billowing or surging. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.

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Billowy in a sentence

Billowy meaning

Swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.

Synonyms of Billowy

billowing surging stormy

Related words

Other words often associated with Billowy or its synonyms:

tempestuous wild rolling angry boisterous blustering moving raging rough blustery tumbling furious

Using Billowy

  • The main meaning on this page is: Swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
  • Useful related words include: billowing, surging, stormy.
  • In the example corpus, billowy often appears in combinations such as: no billowy, the billowy.

Context around Billowy

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

two 1× prevent 1×

Often after:

pink 1× athletic 1× fabrics 1× sacs 1× baby 1× culottes 1× skirts 1× sleeves 1× quality 1×

Sentence patterns with Billowy

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

here no billowy fabrics getting 1× how the billowy sleeves give 1× in a billowy baby blue 1× including the billowy athletic trousers 1× silhouettes to billowy culottes cropped 1× their two billowy sacs rich 1× to prevent billowy skirts 1× were no billowy pink blooms 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

for now i 1× from kick flare 1× in gemology their 1× it runs on 1× of course there 1× queen elizabeth sews 1×

Common sentence endings:

a billowy quality 1× and stylish footwear 1× first time around 1× her native alabama 1× just pitch perfect 1× lifts and jumps 1×

Words around Billowy

Just before it in the word index:

billows 35 billowing 128 billowed 26 billow 12 billotte 5 billoo 2

Just after it in the word index:

billpayer 2 bills 4.881 billsborough 2 billson 6 billstrom 3 billtrust 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aab 14 aamer 14 aave 14 abadan 14 abdelmadjid 14 abdulkarim 14

Corpus analysis for Billowy

  • In this selection, "billowy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, two, prevent, pink, athletic and fabrics stand out and add context to how "billowy" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include here no billowy fabrics getting and how the billowy sleeves give. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "billowy" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with billowy

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Queen Elizabeth sews weights into her hemlines to prevent billowy skirts. (11 words)

There were no billowy pink blooms on the cherry blossoms the first time around. (14 words)

There are no restrictions here — no billowy fabrics getting in the way of your lunges, lifts, and jumps. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

For now, I imagine my brothers’ lungs, each of their two billowy sacs rich in oxygenated blood fighting to make its way into the spongy alveoli where the virus has established a beachhead of phlegm and fluid that must be expunged. (41 words)

It runs on twang, jangle, truth and wide open spaces; on the album cover, Crutchfield, dressed in a billowy baby-blue frock, sprawls across an old Ford truck bearing a license plate from her native Alabama. (36 words)

Of course, there were some missteps, including the billowy athletic trousers with elastic around the ankles and a long dark dress with a rounded, bouncy hemline. (26 words)

Example sentences (9)

There were no billowy pink blooms on the cherry blossoms the first time around.

Of course, there were some missteps, including the billowy athletic trousers with elastic around the ankles and a long dark dress with a rounded, bouncy hemline.

There are no restrictions here — no billowy fabrics getting in the way of your lunges, lifts, and jumps.

For now, I imagine my brothers’ lungs, each of their two billowy sacs rich in oxygenated blood fighting to make its way into the spongy alveoli where the virus has established a beachhead of phlegm and fluid that must be expunged.

It runs on twang, jangle, truth and wide open spaces; on the album cover, Crutchfield, dressed in a billowy baby-blue frock, sprawls across an old Ford truck bearing a license plate from her native Alabama.

From kick-flare silhouettes to billowy culottes, cropped jeans allow you to showcase quirky socks and stylish footwear.

Queen Elizabeth sews weights into her hemlines to prevent billowy skirts.

We love how the billowy sleeves give the bodice shape, whilst the contrast of black, red and her skin is just pitch perfect.

In gemology, their luster is called adularescence and is typically described as creamy or silvery white with a "billowy" quality.

Common combinations with billowy

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "billowy" in a sentence?
An example: "There were no billowy pink blooms on the cherry blossoms the first time around." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "billowy" from authentic English texts.
What does "billowy" mean?
Billowy means: Swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
What are synonyms of "billowy"?
Common synonyms of "billowy" include: billowing, surging, stormy.
How many example sentences with "billowy" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "billowy", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.