Example Sentences

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The houseplants in the room were belching water vapor into the air.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

But when they were taken out on the roads in California, they were belching out levels of nitrogen oxide that were 30 to 40 times higher than the regulatory standards.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2015

At that moment the intervening buildings were belching from their shattered windows dense volumes of reddish smoke, streaked with long ribbons of blue flame.

From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.

Engines were belching clouds of acrid blue smoke heavily impregnated with oily, smelling fumes.

From The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship by Burnham, Margaret

It was as if they were miles above a whole town of blast furnaces, the stacks of which were belching forth flames and smoke.

From Five Thousand Miles Underground Or, the Mystery of the Centre of the Earth by Rockwood, Roy