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!”.
  • Gloria stood up and belched, freeing me from her weight.
    — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Three belches on the U-T five-belch scale.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Finally the flames belched through the hatches and clutched the sails.
    — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
  • Trucks belch out nearly ten times as many greenhouse emissions per ton-mile as trains.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Four belches on the U-T five-belch meter.
    — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Four belches on the U-T five-belch meter.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • He could have been dropped from heaven or belched up from below, but most likely just passed out … again.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The houseplants in the room were belching water vapor into the air.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Vintage steam engines of all makes and models, belching forth smoke and sparks galore.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The belching pocket square crisis of drafts past appears to have abated.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 21 June 2019
  • 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
  • Eventually Arcturus will belch away most of its gas and will shrink down to a white dwarf star.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Its smokestacks belch out the worst sulfur dioxide pollution in the world.
    — NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The eruption, which ended late Sunday, belched smoke almost six miles in the air.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 4 June 2018
  • With a low hiss, puffs of particles belch from their mouths into the air, where the wind catches them and whisks them away.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Black Apaches settled on rooftops and parking lots, dropped to pavement, and belched forth troops.
    — Paolo Bacigalupi, Wired News, 27 May 2015
  • Her old garbage disposal is still in place and frequently belches waste back into the sink.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Hayes is referring to the city’s trash incinerators that belch clouds of smoke not far from here.
    — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • With a clogged toilet belching up a bunch of poop all over Miranda's apartment.
    — Ew Staff December 5, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The other is a phosphate plant that belches pollution into the sky.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • The biggest predators on the roads are smoke-belching, horn-blaring buses that are packed to bursting point.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The five-mile trail up the volcano snakes past hissing steam vents and sulfur pots belching yellow clouds that make eyes water.
    — Carl Fincke, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
  • 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

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