flatulence

Example Sentences

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When the cave floods, the rising and falling of the water sucks through air and makes a sound uncannily similar to flatulence.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

For flatulence, however, there is no widely accepted baseline.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Researchers have developed a tiny, battery-powered hydrogen sensor that continuously monitors a wearer’s flatulence, with the aim of collecting data to improve digestive health.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Despite the prevalence of digestive-health issues, flatulence researchers have been limited to either invasive laboratory studies or self-reporting, which has proven unreliable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

But underneath it all she could not conceive that the boy the gypsies took away was the same lout who would eat half a suckling pig for lunch and whose flatulence withered the flowers.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez