How to Use gassy in a Sentence

gassy

adjective
  • He felt bloated and gassy.
  • The gassy halo means that the area could form clusters of stars.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The dust and gas needed to make a gas giant get blown out faster than a hefty, gassy world can form.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2021
  • When fed to cows, these new additives make the animals less gassy.
    — Lisa Held, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Spinach, especially raw spinach, can lend some people a, well, gassy air.
    — Gregory McNamee, CNN, 1 July 2021
  • Add the fiber gradually, though, to avoid bloating or feeling gassy or crampy.
    — Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • With cask ales, the flavors aren’t masked by gassy carbon dioxide, and can more easily shine through in the glass.
    — Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • After all, who wants to feel constantly gassy or bloated while running to the bathroom left and right?
    — Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 23 Mar. 2022
  • But unlike dry and sandy Tatooine, this planet's surface is gassy and indistinct.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Of all those compounds, benzene is the one responsible for gasoline’s gassy smell.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Sour Diesel is another excellent option, with gassy, earthy, and piney notes.
    — Amplified Content Studio, The Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Sour Diesel is another favorite, featuring earthy, piney, and gassy notes.
    — Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The puffy world likely has a huge, gassy atmosphere, perhaps full of scalding water vapor.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2015
  • On one end of the spectrum, feeling backed up can leave you bloated, sluggish, gassy and uncomfortable.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 1 Dec. 2025
  • There are also lactose-free formulas that are worth trying if your baby is gassy or seems sensitive to lactose.
    — Lainey Younkin, Ms, Rd, Parents, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Sometimes, other issues can be at play when a baby is gassy that merit evaluation and treatment.
    — Anita K. Henry, Parents, 29 June 2023
  • Sometimes, other issues can be at play when a baby is gassy that merit evaluation and treatment.
    — Anita K. Henry, Parents, 29 June 2023
  • But the evidence is VERY clear that inulin makes people gassy.
    — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Will Smith was getting gassy with it on the set of Men in Black, according to the film’s director.
    — Angel Saunders, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Firstly, Saturn is made up of stable gassy layers and potentially has a diffuse rocky core.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Aside from trying a different type of baby bottle or feeding position, there are other ways to soothe a gassy baby.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Everyone gets gassy from time to time, but some people may be more likely to experience excessive gas than others.
    — Cristina Mutchler, Health, 7 Oct. 2024
  • All that energy flows into the star’s gassy outer atmosphere, which starts to expand, like any gas does when soaking up energy.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2024
  • On his 100th birthday, Colin meets his gassy death before being reborn as a baby that burst from the abdomen of his corpse.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
  • After a video of the large pup's hijinks goes viral, a successful dog trainer spots the clip and decides to try turning the goofy (and gassy) canine into a top show dog.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The resulting drag sends the white dwarf spiraling in toward the larger star's core and also pushes gassy material outward.
    — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The Times first reported back in 2024 that the attraction’s gassy cars would be on the way out by the end of 2026.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • The baker touches your surface, tests it, feels the energy quiver in the dough, the ballooning cells, the gassy bounce of your interior expansions, and makes the call.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • This initial study focused on Jupiter’s cyclones, the team was also intrigued by the wispy tendrils or filaments in between the cyclone’s gassy vortices.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
  • My life thus far, at age 52, has been a jazzy, gassy adventure, with assorted triumphs and failures and banal in-between moments, like anybody’s journey.
    — Nick Offerman, Outside Online, 6 Mar. 2023

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