belch

Behind them the water is a luminescent strip of blue, abutting a silhouetted skyline in which many of the buildings belch smoke; a few of the industrial structures spew fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Hence it all but backtracking on its emissions reductions and climate change mitigation goals, just so users can belch out more fake, dangerously misleading images and videos.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024

One woman, doctors wrote, was “unable to voluntarily belch along with her childhood friends when this was a popular game.”

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024

These landfills also belch methane, a powerful, planet-warming gas, on average at almost three times the rate reported to federal regulators, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

A moment later he let out a reverberating belch, and ten or so bees flew out of his mouth.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

They did the same for a series of what they call the “yums” — deep, robotic belches — that occur when Glazer switches to thermal imagery of a resistance fighter collecting apples in the night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

Equally relentless, a stream of carbon dioxide belches out of the top.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2022

Thanks to their methane-rich belches, cattle are the largest producers of agricultural greenhouse gasses on the planet.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022

Dear Amy: I work closely with a co-worker who constantly snorts, coughs, belches and hacks like a cat coughing up a hairball.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2022

“I do hope that Miss Trixie does appear,” he said after he had finished the first sandwich and emitted a series of belches which sounded as if they had disintegrated his digestive tract.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

On the train journey through steel country, he watched with awe the huge industrial furnaces that belched smoke and fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Sections of charred scaffolding fell from the burning apartment blocks in hellish scenes late on Wednesday, as flames inside apartments sometimes belched out through windows into a night sky that glowed orange.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

Last year, a regrettably named trend belched up from the dark cauldron of TikTok: bed rotting.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

For nearly a century, the battery recycling plant had belched poisons such as lead and arsenic into the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023

After a moment she belched, smiled with satisfaction, and continued, “Don’t worry, the good news makes up for it. The spy’s been caught!”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

With black smoke belching high into the sky, Lobga staggers some 90 seconds before collapsing in flames and a U.N. security guard rushes over blasting an extinguisher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

AFP journalists heard blasts in Bahrain's capital Manama, and saw black smoke belching from a major oil terminal in the United Arab Emirates port city of Fujairah.

From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026

Methane expelled by livestock belching and farting contributes about 15% of global emissions each year, UN estimates show.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025

This amount of air depends on the balance between the intake, production and elimination of gas through belching, flatulence or its consumption by the intestinal microbiota.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024

By the end of the second week, she was standing and belching and chewing her cud—the gentlest cow I ever milked.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson