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[belch] / bɛltʃ /


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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

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

Usually cattle belch a lot to release the gas.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

Equally relentless, a stream of carbon dioxide belches out of the top.

From Scientific American Nov. 23, 2022

Thanks to their methane-rich belches, cattle are the largest producers of agricultural greenhouse gasses on the planet.

From Salon Oct. 8, 2022

White steam now belches forth, blending with the black smoke as the fire licks its wounds.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

For nearly a century, the battery recycling plant had belched poisons such as lead and arsenic into the air.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 10, 2023

He belched very loudly, then glanced at us.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

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

In October, video was widely shared of flames belching from the overhead storage compartment of an Air China flight, reportedly caused by a lithium battery.

From BBC Jun. 25, 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

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

Smokestacks belching smog that can be tasted on the tongue.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron




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