Idiom
bell out
Meaning
To open out into a bell shape.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The fabric of her skirt bells out at the bottom.”
“As the wind caught her dress, the hem began to bell out around her legs.”
“The architect designed the base of the tower to bell out gracefully, providing both structural stability and a striking visual contrast to the narrow spire above.”
Examples
simple
“The fabric of her skirt bells out at the bottom.”
contextual
“As the wind caught her dress, the hem began to bell out around her legs.”
complex
“The architect designed the base of the tower to bell out gracefully, providing both structural stability and a striking visual contrast to the narrow spire above.”
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