Heavy trucks belch black smoke and lines of buses battle through a virtually gridlocked sea of cars inching beneath a haze of exhaust fumes.

On the road above us, a pickup rattled by, belching black exhaust.

The chimney of the crematorium stove inside was belching black smoke.

A decrepit Trabant sedan belched black exhaust fumes as it trundled down the road.

The stacks belched black diesel smoke and the truck began to roll, tires crushing gravel.

The accommodation section was now belching black smoke.

The bus roared toward them, belching black smoke.

A tag-covered white van belches black, noxious smoke.

Men had to await their turn, letting their grain stand in shock until a belching black engine lumbered into the field.

As air strikes make smuggling oil from Syria more difficult, dozens of homemade refineries belching black smoke have sprung up around Mosul.

The helicopter was still belching black smoke and red licks of flame, and Rhodes thought he could smell Jim Taggart's body burning.

The great chimneys belched black smoke into the beautiful blue of the sky; the monotonous drone of many machines jarred the hillside quiet.

Distant from the mining sites lay cities, great square buildings with uniform windows and tall smokestacks that belched black muck into the sky.

And this was the final vignette: Maureen hunched in the belching black smoke of the kitchenette while her veal scallopini burned to a crisp.