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
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
Two thousand years ago, the Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder described a man named Pomponius who could not belch.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
Baker Ski Area fires up the lifts this season, fewer of them will belch diesel fumes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
The fires at the coal mines belch black smoke in the distance.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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
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
At any given moment, Earth’s closest star belches fast, blisteringly hot particles known as the solar wind into space.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
Equally relentless, a stream of carbon dioxide belches out of the top.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 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
Gutted and blackened by fire, the nursing home belched smoke as a fire crew doused the last stubborn flames lapping at what remained of the roof.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 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
When we finished we crawled back into bed and belched and joked and curled up and slept it off.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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
But he’s also puckish – sylph-like and otherworldly, seductive and repellent, as likely to swaddle Sarah in her heart’s desire as he is to toss her into the belching, farting Bog of Eternal Stench.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
Methane expelled by livestock belching and farting contributes about 15% of global emissions each year, UN estimates show.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025
The chimneys belching black smoke deliver a shock.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
Stepping off the tracks to let it pass, I watched as the engine screeched and ground to a halt at the depot, belching smoke and steam.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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