How to Use bloated in a Sentence

bloated

adjective
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  • I felt bloated from eating too much.
  • This can help avoid the shock of bloated monthly bills.
    — Ramesh Shurma, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • For weeks bloated corpses drifted ashore with the tide.
    — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
  • Still, the Equinox remains one of the best-sellers in the bloated compact-SUV class.
    — Frankie Cruz, Car and Driver, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Even the pictures are gruesome: A side-shot of a face so bloated with death it’s gone flat.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Even a single bite will doom you to perish bloated on the toilet.
    — Ryan Chapman, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • The body was bloated, and the photographs that Wildmikael had sent were out of focus.
    — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • My chest is super flat but my stomach is bloated and hard as a rock.
    — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Part of the nose is missing, and the features are bloated beyond recognition.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • This means food doesn’t linger in the gut as long, which cuts down on gas production and keeps us from feeling bloated and sick.
    — Serina Desalvio, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The bodies were bloated, and some had open mouths, as if still wearing an expression of shock.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
  • His belly would get bloated and Dodiya would take his father to the hospital to get the fluid sucked out.
    — Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Either way, a lot of money even by bloated NFL standards.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 8 June 2022
  • Harbaugh and the team’s next general manager will have to work through a bloated salary cap.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Maybe that’s why the movie feels slightly bloated; a little careful trimming wouldn’t have hurt.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The other major thing to consider before freaking out over a bloated number on the scale is the time of month.
    — Moira Lawler, Women's Health, 2 June 2023
  • There are many different things that can cause your stomach to become hard and bloated.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 June 2022
  • Near the end, yellowed skin and a bloated body put the often silent, slow-moving disease on sickly display.
    — Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Georges Sarkiss, a fisherman from Berbara, a northern coastal village in Lebanon, has felt the sting of the lionfish, which left him with a bloated hand and leg for weeks.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Britain’s House of Lords is bloated, lazy and unpopular.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Here, see the best bloated, puffy handbag, shoes, and accessories to sink into this season.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Feeling bloated in and of itself isn't enough to point to ovarian cancer.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 29 July 2023
  • His stomach is bloated; his thinning, frizzy hair leaps wildly into the air.
    — Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Manuel hanged himself later that year, and a bloated, sickly Danko died in 1999 after years of hard living.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Lawmakers are right to seek cuts in the bloated student-loan system to fund short-term training, but there are better ways to go about it.
    — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
  • In Ireland, researchers were worried that a 60-foot bloated fin whale would explode.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Eating foods that are high in salt can lead to water retention, which can make your face appear puffy and bloated.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Fleshing a story out to feature-film length can backfire — sometimes the result is a bloated mess.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2022
  • High crime and racial fear mongering is the price the little people must pay to keep the bloated government salaries and pensions going to the right people.
    — Scott Centorino, National Review, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Like virtually every major rock act in the mid-1970s, the Rolling Stones had become bloated and overblown.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 13 May 2022

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