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

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

“Oh,” said Milkman, and struggled against and lost to a long belch.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

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

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

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

Its blue and orange flag is already flying and the boiler beside it belches steam, bearing cheerful witness to the breakfast within.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

Black smoke belched from the oven, and Nana stood beside it, looking dazed.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

Ron didn’t need to spend the whole of Charms belching slugs.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling