belch
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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
Huge swaths of Amazon rainforest have been slashed to create pasture, releasing carbon stored in trees, and cows belch methane that’s far worse for the climate.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
Usually cattle belch a lot to release the gas.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
He includes these episodes in the film, shot in stark black-and-white thermal photography — almost like an X-ray world — punctuated by some of composer Levi’s most disturbing noises, like belches from hell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Several innovative methods for reducing livestock methane emissions target enteric fermentation, which leads to methane belches.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023
Five time zones away from Moscow, a dilapidated Soviet-era coal-burning power station belches smoke over the corrugated-iron roofs of modest wooden homes in Ulan-Ude.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
Equally relentless, a stream of carbon dioxide belches out of the top.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2022
Before Ma can answer, the ground beneath our feet shudders as the volcano belches out more lava and smoke.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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
The other snake belched fire directly in the skeleton’s face.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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
But he’s also puckish – sylph-like and otherworldly, seductive and repellent, as likely to swaddle Sarah in her heart’s desire as he is to toss her into the belching, farting Bog of Eternal Stench.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
It is an important issue given the vast number of generators belching out fumes across Nigeria as a result of the woeful power supply.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024
The houseplants in the room were belching water vapor into the air.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Jenny’s place would still jangle with honky-tonk and rock with belching laughter.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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