How to Use gassy in a Sentence

gassy

adjective
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  • The gassy halo means that the area could form clusters of stars.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The book is gassy and pompous and just fraudulent and dumb as hell.
    — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 15 July 2022
  • 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
  • Stress might also be a culprit in a gassy airborne stomach.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • After all, who wants to feel constantly gassy or bloated while running to the bathroom left and right?
    — Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Add the fiber gradually, though, to avoid bloating or feeling gassy or crampy.
    — Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Spinach, especially raw spinach, can lend some people a, well, gassy air.
    — Gregory McNamee, CNN, 1 July 2021
  • But unlike dry and sandy Tatooine, this planet's surface is gassy and indistinct.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Helling used the model to simulate how dust whirls and swirls around in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs: gassy bodies too big and warm to be planets, but too small and cool to be stars.
    — Shannon Palus, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2015
  • Look skyward and gaze upon our hot, gassy, noxious neighbor.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • Of all those compounds, benzene is the one responsible for gasoline’s gassy smell.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Grain-free options can be beneficial for some gassy dogs.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 puffy world likely has a huge, gassy atmosphere, perhaps full of scalding water vapor.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2015
  • Robert Pattinson gives one of his best performances to date as one of two guys (the other being a very grumpy and very gassy Willem Dafoe) who are left maintaining a lighthouse for far too long.
    — Men's Health, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The gassy giant is around six times the mass of Jupiter and orbits the star at an even greater distance—approximately 320 astronomical units.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2020
  • Mauna Kea has experienced more than one million small seismic tremors since 1999, but don’t worry—the volcano is just a little gassy.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2020
  • The thick, freezing, and gassy atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune contain a mixture of hydrogen, helium, and methane.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Sometimes, other issues can be at play when a baby is gassy that merit evaluation and treatment.
    — Anita K. Henry, Parents, 29 June 2023
  • 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
  • Kevin’s ridiculous play — in the Chekhov a gassy symbolist fantasy — is more literally gassy here, as Nina extols the virtues of public farting.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • There are gassy dinners and gassier communiqués that mean nothing and achieve nothing, yet are haggled over line by line before falling into the oblivion that will entomb them forever.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 10 July 2017
  • This has motivated a field of research dedicated to discovering what might make cows less gassy.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Many gassy envelopes are destroyed over time, in some cases turning giant worlds into tiny, uninhabitable husks.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • This can contribute to feeling bloated, gassy and nauseated.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Everything about him sounded gassy and self-inflated, from his credentials as a mercenary in the Middle East theater to his counterterror chops at an intel firm.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Humor is notoriously subjective, of course, but even by the gassy standards of book blurbs, that feels wildly exaggerated.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022

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