belch
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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
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
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
Usually cattle belch a lot to release the gas.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
Good, but the grant money it offers based on that S.A.I. or other data or the figures that another form, the CSS Profile, belches out is probably not enough to make college affordable.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
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
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
Paper airplanes, loud belches, high-pitched, ghostly moans followed by stifled giggles—it drives Mr. Curran mad that he cannot pick out one boy to punish for all this.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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 ate one pie, then the other, and belched contentedly.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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
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
The Gryffindors were gathered around Ron, who kept belching large, glistening slugs.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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