Sample Sentences for
distend
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    During laparoscopy carbon dioxide gas is injected into the abdominal cavity to distend it so that organs can be viewed more easily.
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    "Why?" Jonas asked him after he had received a torturous memory in which he had been neglected and unfed; the hunger had caused excruciating spasms in his empty, distended stomach.  (source)
    distended = extended or swollen
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    As Scabior said it, Harry's scar, which was stretched tight across his distended forehead, burned savagely.  (source)
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    Other boys were appearing now, tiny tots some of them, brown, with the distended bellies of small savages.  (source)
    distended = swollen
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    The face of Etienne's watch appears to distend.†  (source)
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    I don't have a paunch, either. . . . . What I've got . . . I've got this little distension just below the belt . . . but it's hard . . . It's not soft flesh.  (source)
    distension = something that is extended or sticking out
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    Carrie looked at him a moment, her eyes distending.†  (source)
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    It has disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes.†  (source)
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    In the mean-while all the shore rang with the trump of bullfrogs, the sturdy spirits of ancient wine-bibbers and wassailers, still unrepentant, trying to sing a catch in their Stygian lake—if the Walden nymphs will pardon the comparison, for though there are almost no weeds, there are frogs there—who would fain keep up the hilarious rules of their old festal tables, though their voices have waxed hoarse and solemnly grave, mocking at mirth, and the wine has lost its flavor, and become only liquor to distend their paunches, and sweet intoxication never comes to drown the memory of the past, but mere saturation and waterloggedness and distention.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    He felt her belly, not through the shirt but under it, his fingertips cold and rough like bark on her distended skin.  (source)
    distended = sticking out (extended or swollen)
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    I hadn't seen him look so helpless since he'd crouched next to our wrecked station wagon, watching Mother's face bulge and distend, unable even to touch her because electrified cables were sending a deadly pulse through the metal.†  (source)
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    But this could not explain the clear distension of the lungs, which had to have been caused by the pressure of the sea, and so he revised his initial hypothesis and entered in his final report that the salt water swallowed by Alec Vilderling had been absorbed into his bloodstream while he yet lived.†  (source)
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    Great distending clouds of chalk and earth and granite spout into the sky.†  (source)
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