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Belched


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Belch

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bus belching smoke in Bogotá Pretty dirty.
  • (2) After this operation symptoms such as dysphagia, inability to belch and vomit, and gas bloating are frequently reported in the literature.
  • (3) It describes the advantages of maternal milk by attending the basic principles that should govern the children's feeding, the importance of free scheme breast-feeding to emotional development, as well as ventral and right side-lying position and belching to the prevention of accidents.
  • (4) Air pollution was not the most immediate of problems but the canopy of smoke that belched from industrial and domestic chimneys began to attract attention.
  • (5) The rapid acidification is caused by the massive amounts of carbon dioxide belched from chimneys and exhausts that dissolve in the ocean.
  • (6) Good results included the absence of reflux symptoms, pleasant swallowing, the preservation of a normal capacity for belching and vomiting, minimal flatulence, and a comfortable incision.
  • (7) The vehicle had started belching white smoke and making "popping noises".
  • (8) As the volcano continued to belch smoke above the town, people dusted off the ashes and rebuilt the North Kivu capital.
  • (9) Both controlled release metoclopramide and high and low dose domperidone significantly reduced symptoms of belching, flatulence, distension, heartburn, regurgitation, reflux, nausea and vomiting compared to baseline.
  • (10) We investigated the occurrence of new constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, visible blood in stool, abdominal pain, black stools, belching, and flatus in 324 outpatients following upper or lower gastrointestinal tract barium procedures.
  • (11) The diagnosis of myocardial infarction by the nature of the resultant pain or discomfort was unreliable in contrast to the associated symptoms sweating, nausea, belching and vomiting.
  • (12) It takes away the authenticity.” Mau Mau was subject to one of the most high-profile acts of Olympic censorship, when his legal street painting of a zombie Ronald McDonald, clad in the logos of the Olympic sponsors and running with a Coke-branded torch belching clouds of black smoke, was hastily painted over by Ealing council .
  • (13) Subjective ratings of the severity of abdominal cramping, belching, flatulence, and diarrhea were lower during the first eight hours after challenge in lactase-treated subjects; ratings for bloating were lower during the next eight hours.
  • (14) Belching and passage of flatus were the most frequently reported symptoms after barium enema, both single- and double-contrast.
  • (15) Twelve have now been built, their slender white poles and delicate blades dwarfed by the massive cooling towers of Drax power station belching clouds of steam into the Yorkshire sky – old and new energy in striking juxtaposition.
  • (16) The appropriately titled Elektrownia Belchatow – a massive coal-fired power station – belched out 30,862,792 tonnes of CO 2 last year and by 2010 the whole generating facility will have grown by 20%.
  • (17) The time and pressure profiles of transient lower esophageal sphincter relaxations induced by gastric insufflation were similar to those relaxations seen with spontaneous postprandial gastroesophageal reflux and belching in dogs.
  • (18) Compared with normal subjects, achalasia patients were significantly less likely to have an esophageal belch for all volumes tested and were more likely to have an increase rather than a decrease in upper esophageal sphincter pressure in response to air injection.
  • (19) Reflux episodes were usually associated with belching.
  • (20) Eruptions belch from impacts of Grad rockets and tank shells across swaths of this dun-coloured city.

Lurch


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
  • (n.) An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
  • (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
  • (v. t.) To leave in the lurch; to cheat.
  • (v. t.) To steal; to rob.
  • (n.) A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.
  • (v. i.) To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.
  • (v. i.) To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
  • (v. i.) To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
  • (2) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
  • (3) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
  • (4) These countries which carry the burden of hosting refugees on a scale far higher and for far longer than anything experienced in Europe today must not be left in the lurch.
  • (5) Don't worry, there is a BTL section for you all to contribute to the debate, so we're not leaving you in the lurch.
  • (6) In a Guardian article in October, O'Brien directly challenged the new group when he wrote: "Obviously Cameron should ignore calls from the usual suspects to lurch rightward."
  • (7) On Sunday Assange said: "Will it [the US] return to and reaffirm the revolutionary values it was founded on, or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world?"
  • (8) The company has lurched from one crisis to the next over the past two years, including industrial action this spring by the chorus, with a strike only narrowly averted .
  • (9) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
  • (10) So where is the left-lurching that the Tories allege, with Charles Falconer, Tristram Hunt and Douglas Alexander all exalted?
  • (11) A white double-decker bus, also packed with foreigners, lurches in behind, then come vans and more coaches.
  • (12) She lurches up from the corner with cheerful gloom.
  • (13) It must say something about the swirling currents of prejudice, fear and anger in modern Britain that even Banksy cannot predict their next bizarre lurch.
  • (14) A video appeared to capture the moment the attack began; the time was 10.30pm as the truck lurched forward, heading east, gathering speed for a calculated, unstoppable death charge towards 30,000 people.
  • (15) He warned of a dangerous lurch to the far right on continental Europe but made a point of distinguishing Ukip from the likes of the Front National in France and Golden Dawn in Greece.
  • (16) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … Lurch from the Addams Family .
  • (17) Runaway inflation, rising crime and corruption have blighted the country, and the government has been accused of lurching from one policy to another, with little continuity undermining confidence in the country's economy.
  • (18) We need to know what protections they will be required to give to students, to ensure they are not left in the lurch and ripped off by institutions that may be focused on shareholders rather than students’ interests.” David Morris (@dgmorris295) By my calculations, #HEWhitePaper and BIS confirmation of RPI as inflation measure could mean £10,000 fees by 2020-21.
  • (19) Miliband may not have lurched left, but he's begun to break with that failed consensus.
  • (20) The battle to prevent Greece lurching into disorderly default continues as lawmakers return to the Athens parliament on Thursday to approve the next stage in the hugely unpopular austerity package.

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