Example sentences for: bloated

How can you use “bloated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The prose in this "literary violation" reads "like a parody of Hemingway" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). It "reflects a marvelous writer's disastrous loss of talent" (Kenneth S. Lynn, National Review ); a "sad, bloated, inert so-called book" (L.S.

  • Atlanta's sprawl keeps people sitting in their cars for hours, encouraging them to eat fatty fast food and run down kids who, bloated and logy from their indoor lifestyle, bike-less and slow, staggering along on foot, slowed by 35-pound backpacks, make easy targets and a sickening sort of "squish" sound.

  • Sex and death are forever entwined: Nic sees photos of a naked woman stabbed by a lover, a corpse bloated after three weeks in a river.

  • Ted Kennedy's "love diet," a seaweed-rich plan that has helped the "bloated blimp" with "enough ballast to sink the Titanic " become a shadow of his former self.

  • He has disappointed conservatives by treating rent control as part of natural law, and by making no serious inroads on the city's bloated labor costs.


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