How to Use bloated in a Sentence

bloated

adjective

• I felt bloated from eating too much.
• It’s got a wide, bloated body, tiny round eyes and stout limbs.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
• Koop said that split could saddle the state with bloated expenses for its share.
  — James Barragán, Dallas News, 9 Oct. 2020
• Feeling bloated for a few hours can be completely normal for a bunch of reasons, like the aforementioned gas.
  — Natasha Lavender, SELF, 14 Oct. 2020
• This will reduce the pool of working taxpayers who are needed to expand the already bloated welfare state.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
• Target Tamers appreciated how the big size doesn’t translate to bloated price.
  — Will Palmer, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2020
• Over time, the registry can grow bloated, accumulating errors such as references to programs that are no longer installed.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2020
• That painting depicts a bloated Klansman holding a rifle and a cross standing in front of a Confederate flag.
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
• Because doing everything within the bounds of the law to avoid handing your money to the wasteful, bloated, and intrusive state is an act of patriotism.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 2 Oct. 2020
• And heavy federal spending in response to the pandemic added to the deficit and bloated public debts, which will crowd out investments and increase the government’s interest costs.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
• Well before the trial, Morrison had morphed from the svelte Lizard King into a bearded, bloated, brooding figure.
  — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• Would the two teams get wild and create a monster deal that includes Andre Drummond and Gordon Hayward in bloated-contract swap along with the fifth pick?
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2020
• That’s especially welcome given that most of the mainstream internet is now bloated with ads that are difficult to block from mobile device operating systems.
  — Vijith Assar, Wired, 16 Oct. 2020
• While the book is long, there's no sense that it is bloated.
  — Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• So far, the creek is bloated but hasn’t breached its banks.
  — Andrea Stanley, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2022
• How to keep the profile svelte—or at least not bloated—is the trick.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2021
• 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
• The older man had a black eye and a bloated face from the beating, Lantz said.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
• But the small diskettes couldn’t keep up with the demands of bloated software.
  — Emily Price, PCMAG, 4 July 2024
• Madden games tend to be chunky, bloated, slow and dark.
  — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• 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
• Each of its cells is bloated with 38 times more DNA than a human cell.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• 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
• The fact of the matter is: The state’s budget is bloated and is in dire need of restructuring.
  — Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
• The employees who talked to the Observer agreed that the bank is bloated and that cuts need to happen.
  — Austin Weinstein Charlotte Observer, Star Tribune, 29 Jan. 2021
• My chest is super flat but my stomach is bloated and hard as a rock.
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 25 Aug. 2022
• My midsection often talks to me—I’ll feel very crampy and bloated, and my back starts to ache.
  — Jessica Biel, TIME, 14 May 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024