break wind
Example Sentences
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Bush was that it allowed him the privacy and freedom to break wind.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022
“One thing you learned was to never break wind going down the hatch,” Doug wrote.
From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2021
One video on Nemer’s YouTube channel is called Fart in Public and features him walking around in public pretending to break wind before revealing that it is a prank.
From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2019
Yet Short would still enter Hingst’s small, windowless office a few times a day just to break wind, he said.
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
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