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 | Kwhitmire@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tourists risk carrying invasive species of seeds or microbes on their clothes, while the cruise ships belch out CO2.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Two new fissures opened near the Kilauea Volcano over the weekend, belching more lava and fumes.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 14 May 2018
  • Around 183 million years ago, there was a perturbation in the carbon cycle, along with extreme volcanism that belched out massive amounts of methane, sulfur dioxide, and mercury.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 28 May 2024

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