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

Those same people are now basking in the delight of watching online trolls spiral as they belch “terrorist” while reckoning with his likelihood to win the mayorship in November.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025

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

She forgot that she’d been about to belch.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

To get there, the ship barreled over Kick ’Em Jenny, an active underwater volcano that occasionally belches gases so dangerous that boats must change course.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022

Great belches tipped out of the gas pockets of his stomach and tore through 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

R.C. ate as we walked, stuffing himself with the loot Gramma had packed When we were still a ways from our fishing hole, he belched and handed the half-empty bag back to me.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

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

Oil giant Phillips 66, operator of a massive oil refinery near the Port of Los Angeles, has unveiled plans to replace its belching smokestacks and hulking steel tanks with stores, restaurants and soccer fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

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

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025

It was smoking wildly, belching out thick smoke, as if it were only one small spark away from exploding.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken