burp
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Excuse them, like they popped out of his mouth like an errant burp.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
Chief emission culprits are livestock farming, particularly cattle, which release planet-warming methane when they burp.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
Cattle also burp planet-heating methane gas, plus they require water and land.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025
Livestock account for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with the largest portion coming from methane that cattle release when they burp.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
Do you want me to burp my ABCs?
From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine
Even under the worst kind of duress, they don’t want to flee their homes, their belongings, certainly not their families, despite the threatening burps of Vesuvius.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
There are farts and burps for laughs, but mostly the show is about self-love and acceptance — about how goodness can and will prevail, even in the darkest of circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
The sun’s been getting feisty lately, blasting out flares of radiation and burps of gas that can wash over Earth.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 13, 2023
Fish oil can have some annoying side effects, such as fishy burps, but generally there are minimal serious side effects.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023
It’s precious at first, but after a few hundred burps, my ears start to hurt.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
They wanted to learn how much fluorine and sulfur were burped into the atmosphere as volcanoes spewed one million cubic meters of rock.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2023
One British company has even developed a wearable harness for cows that oxidizes methane as it’s burped out.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
The cows had burped out so much methane that it could be seen from space.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 6, 2022
Growing visibly nervous, he burped bizarrely, briefly pinched his earlobe and covered his face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
Sabrina burped, followed by a dribble of milky spit.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
It’s just like clockwork, if I have any solids during the day of the show, around song seven, I start burping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Mulaney, 42, also shared the same hospital photo on his Instagram grid and added a short video of their daughter spitting up on him while he was burping her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024
Doctors also aren’t sure why many patients keep burping long after the Botox wears off after a few months.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
“I didn’t know if they were hugging or burping each other.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
I should be nice and invite Ray off the floor, but he’s burping from too much junk food.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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