become distended
Example Sentences
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The suction tube was left in to draw off gas lest he become distended and disrupt his wound.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the contrary, says Lapides, it causes the bladder to become distended, with its walls taut and blood circulation diminished.
From Time Magazine Archive
Onik says it works only for a "contained" rupture -- a disk that has become distended but has not yet broken through the fibers that hold its contents in place.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their abdomens soon become distended and red with blood, and then, their thirst satisfied, they slowly move off, sometimes so stupefied with their potations that they can scarcely fly.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter
To his irritated vision the opposite wall seemed to heave and bulge forward, its chocolate design to become distended and to burst, spreading itself in blotches on the yellow ochre.
From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May
