belch
verb (used without object)
to eject stomach gas noisily from the mouth; burp.
had belched
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past perfectof belch.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For nearly a century, the battery recycling plant had belched poisons such as lead and arsenic into the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
Isaiah Morris was eating at noted fine dining establishment Taco Bell on Sunday when another man in the restaurant demanded to know whether he had belched without saying “excuse me.”
From Time ● Mar. 20, 2014
Professor Alessandro Malladra of the Vesuvius Observatory estimated that Etna had belched 523,000,000 cubic yards of lava.
From Time Magazine Archive
There, in the center, was a wide gaping hole from which, in past ages, fiery streams of lava and ashes had belched forth.
From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various
In the distance loomed the San Francisco Mountains, extinct craters which had belched fire and lava long, long ago at the birth of Arizona, when the earth was still in the travail of creation.
From Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales by George (Henry George August) Hartmann
