Example Sentences

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Since June, Boyadzhyan has set off the horn in long belches in the late afternoon or at night, according to neighbors on Peach Avenue, an otherwise quiet residential area.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

Several innovative methods for reducing livestock methane emissions target enteric fermentation, which leads to methane belches.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2023

To get there, the ship barreled over Kick ’Em Jenny, an active underwater volcano that occasionally belches gases so dangerous that boats must change course.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2022

Equally relentless, a stream of carbon dioxide belches out of the top.

From Scientific American • Nov. 23, 2022

Great belches tipped out of the gas pockets of his stomach and tore through his digestive tract.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole