Example Sentences

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The natural pool was belching soap bubbles from the soap someone had dumped in.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2012

Firefighters traveled about 400 feet from the entrance to the plant before reaching the machine room, which was belching heavy smoke, said Frank Dwyer, a spokesman for the Fire Department.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2011

At the height of that folly, smoke was belching from millions of tiny, homemade backyard steel furnaces stoked by peasants�a fantastic waste of manpower that eventually resulted in serious food shortages.

From Time Magazine Archive

The biggest liner ever to burn at sea, the 41,000-ton Atlantique, was belching to high heaven $18,000,000 worth of flame & smoke.

From Time Magazine Archive

Immediately overhead the great crater was belching incandescent rock and scoria for an incredible distance.

From The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire by Morris, Charles