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
Two thousand years ago, the Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder described a man named Pomponius who could not belch.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
And cows belch methane that’s far worse for the climate.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 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
He includes these episodes in the film, shot in stark black-and-white thermal photography — almost like an X-ray world — punctuated by some of composer Levi’s most disturbing noises, like belches from hell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Several innovative methods for reducing livestock methane emissions target enteric fermentation, which leads to methane belches.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023
Equally relentless, a stream of carbon dioxide belches out of the top.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2022
Others, weaning belches, lodged in his chest and caused massive heartburn.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
He belched violently during the silence that followed.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
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
Ron didn’t need to spend the whole of Charms belching slugs.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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