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

While these conflagrations engulf millions of acres of lands, they belch fine particulate matter into the air, which humans inevitably inhale.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025

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

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

I filled his cup and heard him belch and removed his plate with the meat half gnawed from the bones.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Since June, Boyadzhyan has set off the horn in long belches in the late afternoon or at night, according to neighbors on Peach Avenue, an otherwise quiet residential area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025

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

The Indonesian island of Java’s tallest volcano, Semeru, sent an ash cloud nearly a mile into the air this week—the latest uptick in unrest from a mountain that belches ash and volcanic gases almost constantly.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 6, 2022

White steam now belches forth, blending with the black smoke as the fire licks its wounds.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

In recent episodes, Bercow’s oratorial prowess came into full flower, as he belched forth merciless diatribes that made several bystanders go cross-eyed.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

Hermione screamed, but the dragon opened its mouth and belched flame again, blasting the tunnel, whose floors and ceiling cracked and crumbled.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

It was an adult female, who twisted his head to look straight in his eyes, before putting a finger in his mouth and belching at him.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 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

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

It had huge iron gates leading in to it, and a high wall surrounding it, and smoke belching from its chimneys, and strange whizzing sounds coming from deep inside it.

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl