tumid

Example Sentences

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“I found her unfamiliar, rouged like a corpse, her tumid ankles peeking out, inflated and purple,” Rowbottom writes.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2018

The average mall moviegoer might be baffled or sedated by his films’ tumid, dreamlike melancholy.

From Time • Apr. 3, 2015

Written in that vein, Love and Death in the American Novel is a tumid, quasi-psychoanalytic study in which Critic Fiedler tries to strip American literature down to a heavily annotated fig leaf.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Gaudi's hands, art nouveau took on a tumid, visceral energy that no other European architect could manage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her tumid eyes filled with tears and she began to cry, rocking back and forth slowly in her chair with her hands lying in her lap like fallen moths.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller