Sentence examples for burp from inspiring English sources

Like, she wouldn't know that it's not OK just to burp in someone's face at the dinner table, which allowed me to play her with a measure of black comedy.

In effect, it would have been the biggest fracking operation in history, releasing oil and gas from the shattered rock in prodigious quantities.The upshot, Dr Tohver believes, would have been a huge burp of methane into the atmosphere.

Since methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, that burp would have resulted in instant global warming, making things too hot for much of the planet's animal life.

And now there's a baby around, it's diaper/nappy (ble), burp (bøvse), pacifier/dummy (sut), crib (vugge), baby carriage/pram (barnevogn) and so on.

It fears trouble in Japan's government-bond market, which must finance a deficit of close to 10% of GDP and national debts of ¥666 trillion, a whopping 120% of GDP (see chart 3).So far, the market has digested all this debt with barely a burp: ten-year bonds yield only a fraction over 1%.

The preceding Palaeocene epoch was also brought to an end, the rocks suggest, by a sudden release of methane.The burp could, of course, have been provoked by the eruptions, so the volcanoes are not off the hook completely.

Dr Yoshimoto showed that lowering DCA levels in mice did indeed reduce the development of liver cancer.Certain types of gut bacteria, including strains of Clostridium (a Gram-positive genus), are known to burp out DCA.

Many clathrate deposits sit atop grand reservoirs of free gas, so that drilling might unleash a methane burp of enormous size, with environmental impacts to match.One brilliant-sounding idea, now being studied, calls for pumping carbon dioxide into the clathrates.

"Time Warner or Bertelsmann could swallow them without a burp," says Paul Boin of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom.

Methane is a greenhouse gas far stronger than carbon dioxide, so the consequence would have been a rapid warming of the climate a phenomenon that the rocks suggest did actually happen.This is not the first time a methane burp has been blamed for an extinction.

If you want to yap, rap, bark, howl or burp, so be it, and the modish English of the 1990s offers you plenty of exemplars (things to copy, if you prefer, but you will note that three words are longer than one).