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ostentatiously lofty in styleTurgid can also mean "swollen".
- During the night, the mephitic vapors had accumulated low to the ground, and now the dim morning light gilded the turgid clouds, turning them opaque.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- Far down in the shadows she discerned the river, yellow, turgid, palely gleaming.Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
- I saw a fathomless, a bottomless abyss, which yawned beneath the turgid waves.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- He says, The male organ of copulation becomes turgid and is inserted into the receptive female orifice.Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
- In his red gown he was another man, no longer genial or goodnatured; his mouth spewed out long, turgid phrases like an endless stream of snakes.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- Was this the only true history of the times, a mood blared by trumpets, trombones, saxophones and drums, a song with turgid, inadequate words?Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- The wolves had gone into the turgid brown water alone.George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
- And the prose in the memoranda of other officers was always turgid, stilted, or ambiguous.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Shortening her wingspan, she tilted downward, the sensation of weight leaving her, and gyrated in slow spirals as she dove toward the turgid river.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- Like a kind of summer molasses, it poured turgidly forth upon the cinnamon-dusty road.Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
- Gabriel was already among the turgid, prostrate forms.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Kassad felt the bloodlust build in him with turgid strength.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- She watches Cash stooping at the plank, the turgid savage gleam of the lantern slicking on the raincoat AS he moves.William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying
- Some states use a turgid style which can get you lost with the greatest ease.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- The eerie phone conversation had left him feeling turgid .... distended somehow.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- Just before sinking within the turgid sea, its central fires suddenly went out, as if hurriedly extinguished by some unaccountable power.Edgar Allan Poe -- MS. Found in a Bottle
- They were like turgid animals who did things mechanically.Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima
- The dining-room area is lit with a turgid smoky red glow.Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
- The black, turgid, convulsed face grew white and ghastly, with beads of clammy sweat and lines of torture.Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
- "I can understand why you'd want to quit this madhouse—but to be the head of Sweden's most turgid old-boy newspaper?Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
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