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• We were moving slowly up the river as the creature bore down upon us with distended jaws.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry bear down on
• The appendix when brought into view was found chronically inflamed and distended by fæcoliths.1914, Annals of Surgery, page 13. From the entry fæcolith
• The remarkable displacement of the cœlom by an irregularly distended system of blood-spaces, “a hæmocœl” (which, Prof.1901, “Bibliographical Notices”, in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume VII, page 133. From the entry haemocoel
• Ultrasonography showed bilateral hydroureteronephrosis with distended, thick walled bladder.2015 June 3, Shashi Verma et al., “Megalourethra with Y-Type Duplication of Urethra Presented as Perianal Fistula: A Rare Case Report”, in…. From the entry hydroureteronephrosis
• Everything is exaggerated and distended into a nihilistic, dystopic parody of anything you'd recognize as the real world.1999 February 5, Stunt Borg, “Review of the New Sabbat Guide”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet). From the entry crappitude
• I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all the old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 147. From the entry distend
• Many a satisfactory jammy, sardiney orgy left its distended celebrants poorer in pocket certainly, but richer in cherished memories.1936, George Charles Beresford, Schooldays with Kipling, page 98. From the entry sardiney
• It was saturated with water like the rest of the clothing, but its pocket seemed heavy and distended.1900, Bret Harte, “A Niece of Snapshot Harry’s. Chapter II.”, in From Sand Hill to Pine, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin…. From the entry unloose
• These Mongolian antelopes lack the distended nose that characterizes the saiga, but males do develop a similarly curious enlarged throat sac during the mating season.2010, Paula Hammond, The Atlas of Endangered Animals: Wildlife Under Threat Around the World, page 195. From the entry zeren
• The elastic haematodochae are then distended hydraulically, pushing out and rotating the sclerites of the palpal organs, some of which lock it in position.1996, Michael J Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, published 1996, page 22. From the entry haematodocha
• The limit of death that is so fascinatedly and prettily witnessed in the sentimental deathbed scene is here pried open and distended.1995, Shawn Rosenheim, Stephen Rachman, The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe, page 116. From the entry fascinatedly
• Long live the Lieutenantess Governoress!” Françoise, with her nostrils distended, and Longstreet, with his Metropolitan’s helmet in his hand, returned to salute the worshipful crowd.1994, Louisiana History, page 78. From the entry lieutenantess
• The insula registers our physical gut feelings, including the sensation of a distended stomach and other inner states like nausea, warmth, a full bladder, and a pounding heart.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 608. From the entry insula
• The female takes about five minutes to gorge itself with blood and when it leaves the host animal its abdomen is so distended that it must fly with difficulty.1961 June 8, Robert Barrass, New Scientist: The Visual Sense in "Blind-Flies". From the entry blind-fly

Meaning of distended

1. adjective Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
2. adjective Gravid.

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How do you use distended in a sentence?

Distended is used as an adjective. For example: “We were moving slowly up the river as the creature bore down upon us with distended jaws.”

What is a short sentence with distended?

“Ultrasonography showed bilateral hydroureteronephrosis with distended, thick walled bladder.”

What does distended mean?

Distended means extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.