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
Two thousand years ago, the Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder described a man named Pomponius who could not belch.
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
With a sudden belch of smoke and a fountain of white water, the engine kicks.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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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
Several innovative methods for reducing livestock methane emissions target enteric fermentation, which leads to methane belches.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023
At any given moment, Earth’s closest star belches fast, blisteringly hot particles known as the solar wind into space.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
Equally relentless, a stream of carbon dioxide belches out of the top.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2022
A lake of molten sulphur extended the length of an immense canyon, releasing its mephitic vapors in sudden gusts and belches and barring the way of the solitary winged figure who stood at its edge.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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Near the iconic Place de la Republique in central Paris, broken glass and debris littered the roads, as a pile of burning bicycles belched out thick smoke.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
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
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
His father belched, crumpled the can, added it to a large pile, and drew a new can from a dwindling pile.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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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
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
Down on Estonia’s southern border with Latvia, ageing British Challenger 2 tanks and other 1980s-era armoured vehicles lurch over farmland, belching exhaust fumes into the clear spring air.
From BBC ● May 31, 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
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