billow

aaltoilla, hyökyä

leijua

tarpoa

pullistua A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
Cowper

whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll

And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.

Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?

During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains, (..), billowing steadily eastward, it had rolled up the western slopes of the Siskiyou Range, (..)

The nuns' veils billowed and flapped behind the snaky line of girls as if the sisters were shooing the serpent from the Garden of Eden.

Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta.

She had changed her auburn hair. Instead of wearing it in a billowing puff over her brow, she had gathered it into a ponytail, secured with a length of yellow yarn.