How to Use belch in a Sentence

belch

verb

• Smoke belched from the factory chimneys beside the river.
• He belched loudly, and his girlfriend said, “That's disgusting!”.
• Finally the flames belched through the hatches and clutched the sails.
  — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
• The wedding might be off, but Over-the-Line belches on.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 July 2018
• Right about now, rap-metal seems to belch out a new Linkin Park every week.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 20 July 2017
• The crash sent flames into the air, belched smoke for hours and left neighbors thinking the earth was shaking.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
• He’s left a trail behind him the way pulpwood trucks belch smoke along back country roads.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 11 July 2023
• The houseplants in the room were belching water vapor into the air.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2024
• The eruption, which ended late Sunday, belched smoke almost six miles in the air.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 4 June 2018
• This is the flame-belching hot-rod coupe that made pro rallying cool during the 1980s.
  — Kevin Sintumuang, Esquire, 21 Sep. 2017
• By the looks of things, quirky characters, food facts, and belching yeast puppets (of course) will all be present.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• But the event wasn’t instantaneous – for the first 18 hours or so, the volcano belched smoke and debris into the air.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 19 July 2024
• In other words, the volcanoes didn’t belch up CO2 and SO2 in equal proportions all the time.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• Oil belched into the waters of the Gulf until the end of July, some 3.19 million barrels of it.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Mar. 2018
• At the front of the park stood a towering waterfall, a water slide and a volcano that belched smoke.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 6 June 2019
• While the red tongue of lava lolled off the coast, the two open vents of the volcano continued to belch up more magma from below.
  — Daniel Roca and Joseph Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2021
• On Wednesday, the volcano belched a plume that reached about 7,000 feet, scientists said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2018
• Black Apaches settled on rooftops and parking lots, dropped to pavement, and belched forth troops.
  — Paolo Bacigalupi, Wired News, 27 May 2015
• The boat was decorated in black, its flag at half-mast, with black smoke belching from its twin stacks.
  — Patrick Springer / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 6 July 2019
• First, the smoke machine went a bit haywire and just kept belching out the fog during a couple of routines.
  — Jacquie Oliverius, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2017
• As the cow puts its head in and munches its reward, a fan draws air from the chamber and the unit measures how much methane the cow belches out.
  — Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2024
• Trucks belch out nearly ten times as many greenhouse emissions per ton-mile as trains.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
• Its smokestacks belch out the worst sulfur dioxide pollution in the world.
  — NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
• And in August 2015, the volcano began belching ash, steam, and gases into the air.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 13 June 2018
• The biggest predators on the roads are smoke-belching, horn-blaring buses that are packed to bursting point.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
• In key ways, the smoke-belching fire in East Palestine offered the right recipe to create these compounds, experts say.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2023
• In 1783, the Laki volcanic system belched out poisonous gases that led to the death of over half of Iceland’s livestock and caused a famine.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
• My husband blows his nose MANY times a day and belches constantly.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 16 June 2023
• The belching pocket square crisis of drafts past appears to have abated.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 21 June 2019
• Cows produce methane as a byproduct of digesting their high-fiber diet, and belch the gas out on a continuous basis.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024