bloated

Example Sentences

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The entire town is trying to survive this onslaught and originally, in the text, there’s like two or three bloaters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2025

In "The Last of Us," the fungus evolves to infect humans, transforming them into a variety of infected, with the most dangerous being the later-stage monsters known as "clickers" and "bloaters."

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2023

Human touch No. 2 of the Royal visit was H. R. H.'s frank confession that, like most people, he did not know the difference between herrings, bloaters, kippers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Fulton fishmongers supply such exotic morsels as Japanese frog legs, Alaskan king crabs, Indian pompano, Irish bloaters and South African alewives.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first are called red-herrings, and the latter are known as bloaters.

From A Yacht Voyage Round England by Kingston, William Henry Giles