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

The wife, convinced that Bibi’s presence would infect the unborn child, began to wrap woolen shawls around her tumid belly.

From Literature

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 Literature

Anyone watching the videos of the killers hunting down helpless people in a café can have little tolerance for the tumid explanations of their grievances.

From The New Yorker

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

From Time