farted; farting; farts
1
informal + impolite
: an expulsion of intestinal gas
2
informal + impolite
: a foolish or contemptible person
couldn't stand the old fart
Examples of fart in a Sentence
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 May 2026
Or, on the other hand, how many scenes in the canon depict farting (not a lot of them).
—Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
The foreign sounds made his face crimp, as if somebody right next to him had farted.
—Chang-Rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
There’s not all that much to this pre-tape, really, outside the fun turn of Sarah Sherman’s character getting stuck halfway between human and frog morph from sneezing and farting at the same time.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2026
Slim Shady, her roughly 70-pound, 22-year-old sulcata tortoise, farts loudly, sometimes knocks her down and has forced her to find him after absconding in her North Highlands neighborhood when her front gate was left open.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2026
There are many different avenues the movie franchise could go — even if critics would rather fart a Yoshi egg than watch another one of these.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
Smart Underwear is able to track whenever a person farts.
—Dennis Valera, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
The research, led by Brantley Hall, an assistant professor in the University’s Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, seeks to improve our understanding of what constitutes excessive flatulence and what causes some people to fart more than others.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Ashley Padilla has unlocked the key to getting a fart sketch past noted fart-sketch-hater Lorne Michaels.
—Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
Most people pass gas (fart) around 8-14 times a day.
—Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 28 May 2026
By the way, getting excited about a schedule release even on the face of it, without all the pomp and circumstance of social media managers sniffing their own farts, is lame.
—Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
Rushdie does not linger, unlike most farts.
—Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
While offering a musical analysis for fart sound effects may sound like a harmless gag, the tech’s tendency to hallucinate and mislead could have far more serious consequences as well.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 15 Apr. 2026
The sport was invented for kids in 1965, but came on gangbusters recently as old farts got excited and then young farts and middle-age farts joined in.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
Science has finally settled the age-old debate of whose farts smell worse — men or women.
—Trisha Pasricha, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2026
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Verb
Imrie famously went viral after farting on The Celebrity Traitors.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 May 2026
Or, on the other hand, how many scenes in the canon depict farting (not a lot of them).
—Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
The foreign sounds made his face crimp, as if somebody right next to him had farted.
—Chang-Rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
There’s not all that much to this pre-tape, really, outside the fun turn of Sarah Sherman’s character getting stuck halfway between human and frog morph from sneezing and farting at the same time.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2026
Slim Shady, her roughly 70-pound, 22-year-old sulcata tortoise, farts loudly, sometimes knocks her down and has forced her to find him after absconding in her North Highlands neighborhood when her front gate was left open.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2026
There are many different avenues the movie franchise could go — even if critics would rather fart a Yoshi egg than watch another one of these.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
Smart Underwear is able to track whenever a person farts.
—Dennis Valera, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
The research, led by Brantley Hall, an assistant professor in the University’s Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, seeks to improve our understanding of what constitutes excessive flatulence and what causes some people to fart more than others.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
Every day brought a thousand little dramas, dropped lines and brilliant recoveries, missing props and onstage farts, the extramarital affair that Proteus and Julia had commenced, the gay actor’s wicked commentary on it, followed by bad behavior in bars.
—Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Ashley Padilla has unlocked the key to getting a fart sketch past noted fart-sketch-hater Lorne Michaels.
—Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
Most people pass gas (fart) around 8-14 times a day.
—Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 28 May 2026
By the way, getting excited about a schedule release even on the face of it, without all the pomp and circumstance of social media managers sniffing their own farts, is lame.
—Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
Rushdie does not linger, unlike most farts.
—Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
While offering a musical analysis for fart sound effects may sound like a harmless gag, the tech’s tendency to hallucinate and mislead could have far more serious consequences as well.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 15 Apr. 2026
The sport was invented for kids in 1965, but came on gangbusters recently as old farts got excited and then young farts and middle-age farts joined in.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
Science has finally settled the age-old debate of whose farts smell worse — men or women.
—Trisha Pasricha, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2026
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“Fart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fart. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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