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    Use "distend" in a sentence

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    distend


    1. His astonished warriors saw Yar Afzal's eyes distend, the color ebb from his face


    2. He saw his shadow distend on the Persian rug in the


    3. building, she saw the city distend toward the ocean


    4. With yo-yo dieting and overeating, we've caused our stomachs to distend and begin to lose their elasticity


    5. Bloating that results from eating the wrong types of food can also distend the stomach and cause it to lose elasticity


    6. This face is an epilepsy, its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show


    7. The face of Etienne’s watch appears to distend


    8. He hesitated a little; then, settled well in the passage, he makes his way up the straights of it, with a difficulty nothing more than pleasing, widening as he went so as to distend and smooth each soft furrow: our pleasure increasing deliciously, in proportion to our points of mutual touch increased in that so vital part of me which I had now taken him, all indriven, and completely sheathed; and which, crammed as it was, stretched splitting ripe, gave it so gratefully straight an accommodation! so strict a fold! a suction so fierce! that gave and took unutterable delight


    9. He heard oyster shells kick up and hit an undercarriage, saw rhomboids of light distend on the ceiling


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    Synonyms for "distend"

    distend dilate

    "distend" definitions

    become wider


    cause to expand as it by internal pressure


    swell from or as if from internal pressure