burp
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Chief emission culprits are livestock farming, particularly cattle, which release planet-warming methane when they burp.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
That weird Strawberry Shortcake doll that would burp its signature scent in your face when you squeezed its stomach.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
It’s a problem that because of his net worth and lack of filter, he can get in a momentary snit, burp out an angry post, and send Washington scurrying.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2025
Livestock account for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with the largest portion coming from methane that cattle release when they burp.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
Adina stifled a burp and made a face.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
There are farts and burps for laughs, but mostly the show is about self-love and acceptance — about how goodness can and will prevail, even in the darkest of circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
Because of the way they digest their food, cow burps and farts contain methane.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2024
A slew of research aims to curb bovine burps by feeding them seaweed, essential oilsand even a bovine Bean-O of sorts.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2023
He thinks the new study adds exciting evidence that these “eruptions are related to bigger processes that affect whole continents rather than being isolated, random burps of magma.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2023
I reached over and patted her back, the way one burps a baby.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
They wanted to learn how much fluorine and sulfur were burped into the atmosphere as volcanoes spewed one million cubic meters of rock.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2023
One British company has even developed a wearable harness for cows that oxidizes methane as it’s burped out.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
The cows had burped out so much methane that it could be seen from space.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 6, 2022
Growing visibly nervous, he burped bizarrely, briefly pinched his earlobe and covered his face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
He made it disappear, burped, and said, “Room two-twelve in the C Ring.”
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
Mulaney, 42, also shared the same hospital photo on his Instagram grid and added a short video of their daughter spitting up on him while he was burping her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024
Moody asked if Bastian could try it to cure his burping problem.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
“I didn’t know if they were hugging or burping each other.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
Last October, New Zealand proposed taxing the greenhouse gases that farm animals produce from burping and urinating in a bid to tackle climate change.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2023
“I’m a village man!” he said happily, as though to explain the drops of soup that landed on his shirt and on the table while he ate, or his loud burping afterwards.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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