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

He said the nurse falsely recorded an examination of Child I by "doctors" at 15:00 and wrote that the baby "appeared mottled in colour with distended abdomen and more prominent veins".

From BBC

He said the nurse falsely recorded an examination of Child I by "doctors" at 15:00, in which she wrote Child I "appeared mottled in colour with distended abdomen and more prominent veins".

From BBC

They can also become distended by forcing too much inside at once, which describes this "adios" season.

From Salon