flatus

Example Sentences

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The goal is to determine the normal range of flatus production among people in the United States over the age of 18.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

The sensor is mostly dormant, but it also needs to record every emission, so the team needed a way to generate a flatus on command.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Not to mention the distinctive smell of feces and flatus, i.e., farts.

From Salon • May 31, 2025

M Gove has promised to phase out diesel- and petrol-driven cars by 2040, a tiny flatus puff in a vast tornado, 22 years of slow death away.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2018

Gaseity -- N. gaseity†; vaporousness &c. adj.; flatulence, flatulency; volatility; aeration, aerification. elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark