flatus

Example Sentences

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However, results varied widely among individuals, with totals ranging from just four flatus events per day to as many as 59.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

The sensor is mostly dormant, but it also needs to record every emission, so the team needed a way to generate a flatus on command.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

M Gove has promised to phase out diesel- and petrol-driven cars by 2040, a tiny flatus puff in a vast tornado, 22 years of slow death away.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2018

Each day, up to 1500 mL of flatus is produced in the colon.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Quatuor voragines huius Oceani, a quatuor oppositis mundi partibus Philosophi describunt, vnde & tam marinos fluctus, quàm & Æolicos flatus causaliter peruenire nonnulli coniectant.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard