How to Use gassy in a Sentence
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The gassy halo means that the area could form clusters of stars.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
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The book is gassy and pompous and just fraudulent and dumb as hell.
—Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 15 July 2022
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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
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When fed to cows, these new additives make the animals less gassy.
—Lisa Held, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2021
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Stress might also be a culprit in a gassy airborne stomach.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
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After all, who wants to feel constantly gassy or bloated while running to the bathroom left and right?
—Alisa Hrustic, SELF, 23 Mar. 2022
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Add the fiber gradually, though, to avoid bloating or feeling gassy or crampy.
—Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 19 Feb. 2021
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Spinach, especially raw spinach, can lend some people a, well, gassy air.
—Gregory McNamee, CNN, 1 July 2021
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But unlike dry and sandy Tatooine, this planet's surface is gassy and indistinct.
—Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019
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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
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Look skyward and gaze upon our hot, gassy, noxious neighbor.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 25 May 2021
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Of all those compounds, benzene is the one responsible for gasoline’s gassy smell.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
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Grain-free options can be beneficial for some gassy dogs.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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The puffy world likely has a huge, gassy atmosphere, perhaps full of scalding water vapor.
—Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sometimes, other issues can be at play when a baby is gassy that merit evaluation and treatment.
—Anita K. Henry, Parents, 29 June 2023
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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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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
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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
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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
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This has motivated a field of research dedicated to discovering what might make cows less gassy.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
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Many gassy envelopes are destroyed over time, in some cases turning giant worlds into tiny, uninhabitable husks.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 June 2021
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This can contribute to feeling bloated, gassy and nauseated.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
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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
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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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