belch
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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
It has a voracious, never-ending appetite for pulp, but is also able to belch out plastics, glass and other contaminants through an exit at the end of its rotating shaft.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 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
The room was quiet until a student in the back of the room let out an enormous belch and said, not too sincerely, "Sorry."
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
He includes these episodes in the film, shot in stark black-and-white thermal photography — almost like an X-ray world — punctuated by some of composer Levi’s most disturbing noises, like belches from hell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Several innovative methods for reducing livestock methane emissions target enteric fermentation, which leads to methane belches.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023
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
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
A big steelmaker belches too much smoke into the air?
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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
The report found that gas-powered lawn equipment belched 21,800 tons of PM2.5 in 2020 — an amount equivalent to the pollution from 234 million typical cars over the course of a year.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023
He looked at me like Id just belched loudly.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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
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
As always, the air was filled with the smell of rotting whale carcasses and the sound of elephant seals bellowing and belching on the beach.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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