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
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
Ruminants like cattle and sheep release methane into the atmosphere when they burp.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2024
Yes, of course, naturally she would love him, cuddle him, feed him, walk him, diaper him, burp him, dress him, and be a big sister to him in every way.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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
Because of the way they digest their food, cow burps and farts contain methane.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2024
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
He puts the empty Coke can on the counter and burps real loud.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
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
As cows graze, bacteria in their stomachs help break the fiber down, a metabolic process that builds protein-dense muscle but also methane as a byproduct, which gets burped out.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
I would eat those processed snacks until I bled pink and blue, until I burped confetti, until I was the 'Corn and the 'Corn was me.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2022
The cows had burped out so much methane that it could be seen from space.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 6, 2022
He leaned back, farted once, burped twice and gave a mighty scratch in an area most parents urge toddlers not to touch in public.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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
Bits of gray, green, and yellow roll in the burping white paste.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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