verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
belch (out) smoke (= send out large amounts of smoke )
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The factories belch smoke.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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Water belched out as he drenched each tree, pouring the costly stuff into the deep trench which circled their trunks.
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The fine sediments are fallout from a hydrothermal chimney that had been belching out smoke for years.
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Each year it belches out the sum of 325,000 tonnes of sulphur.
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The same effect occurs in cattle, though cattle belch out surplus methane.
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The main stack belches out clouds of black smoke.
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As they moved nearer, Nuadu felt the heat belch out .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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smokestacks belching black smoke into the air
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cranston was now quietly nodding, belching softly and smacking his lips.
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Offshore a small tug belched black smoke as she struggled to pull a string of barges.
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Pressed against me, the women stitched, blew snot out of their noses, spat and belched.