distend

Example Sentences

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To actually feel intoxicated, a chimp would need to eat so much fruit that its stomach would become painfully distended.

From Science Daily

Songs like “No Good Deed” and “March of the Witch Hunters” are chopped up and rearranged to allow for more dialogue and less emoting, distending the film into a bloated heap.

From Salon

“I check on Aaron in the downstairs bathroom. He is naked, distressed, raving with pain. He rubs his distended belly. A metallic ooze pours out of his navel, like silver spray paint.”

From Washington Post

Slowly, I register her shallow breaths, her distended abdomen, her swollen ankles spilling over her Crocs, the thickened, discolored skin telegraphing the chronicity of her condition.

From Washington Post

Elsewhere, a swell of organic shapes above a flattened brown expanse no doubt owes its origins to distended cloud formations blossoming over the desert.

From Los Angeles Times