break wind
Example Sentences
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The solution: Hiring a man who can break wind on command to launch darts at Steve-O from a flatulence-powered dart gun.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
“One thing you learned was to never break wind going down the hatch,” Doug wrote.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2021
On Monday, Hingst gave details of the alleged bullying, saying Short would come into his small, windowless office several times a day and break wind.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2019
The court’s judges wrote in their ruling that Hingst argued that “flatulence constituted assaults” and “alleged that Mr. Short would regularly break wind on him or at him, Mr. Short thinking this to be funny.”
From Fox News ● Mar. 29, 2019
"My dogs would smell anything in them bushes. Be all over them before you could break wind, boy."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
