distended

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

She had been dropping weight for months, her once plump arms reduced to sticks, her belly distended.

From Washington Post

“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

But taken as a whole, Scott wrote, the movie presents a “distended, awkward narrative whose strongest themes are lost in the murky pomp of period detail.”

From New York Times

In myth, these creatures have feet that face backward; she shows them that way too, but hers — bulky, distended, wild — differ from the nymph-like forms in popular imagery.

From New York Times