How to Use turgid in a Sentence

turgid

adjective

• The stars were misaligned from the start for this frantic, turgid thriller.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• The dogs reach the banks of the Luangwa River — 300 feet wide there and turgid from weeks of steady rain.
  — New York Times, 20 June 2022
• Arsenal is still 8 points out of fourth place, behind all of its main rivals and locked in turgid form.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Rigorous but not turgid, the book paints a picture where the good guys are not always pure, and sometimes do bad things.
  — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
• But much of the rest of the island lies in the chokehold of a turgid, frustrating and perilous slog toward recovery.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Oct. 2017
• To make virtual fundraisers less like turgid Zoom meetings for work, a couple of Texans have shipped out wine and snacks to donors.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 1 July 2020
• Recording sessions for the album were reportedly tense, and the results were turgid.
  — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021
• In that respect, summits like the Bali meeting matter more than the turgid statements released afterward.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• Now their carcasses were being spewed forth in untold thousands by the rushing waters, to be carried away on the crest of the foaming, turgid flood rushing down the valley.
  — H.w. Brands, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
• Seventy-nine-year-old Martin Scorcese will seek to redeem himself after the turgid, self-indulgent mess that was 2019's The Irishman.
  — David Faris, The Week, 9 Jan. 2022
• Cars were barely visible under several feet of turgid stormwater, as record rainfall fell on the city.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
• The Germans promptly went to work on Das Reboot, overhauling their development system and turgid style of play.
  — Bill Saporito, Time, 9 July 2021
• There is a bittersweet suggestion made by this turgid, solemnly weighted film.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Romero's final film is also one of his worst, a turgid blend of soap opera and horror that seems to have little interest in advancing itself forward.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2023
• The Toffees, who finished the season in eighth place, have been criticised by fans for a number of turgid displays, and the club's hierarchy will be looking to bring in some creative flair in the summer.
  — SI.com, 14 May 2018
• As the truly turgid game against Milan at San Siro exemplified, Juve’s lack of creativity has been a major theme of their season.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• There’s nothing to play because there’s nothing of any interest in the character, or in the whole mysteriously turgid film.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2022
• Brahms, for me, represents the final, richest expression of the romantic in music (as opposed to the turgid neuroticism of Wagner and some of Mahler).
  — Oliver Sacks, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2007
• But professors who attempt to dress up or show off their learning by employing dense, turgid language do their fields—and their students—a great disservice.
  — Michael Zimm, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
• Participant children are enlisted to help Maiden find the mayor to give him a special medal that will help him defeat the Stench, played with turgid bombast by Michael Faulkner.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2021
• Even comedy stalwart Jennifer Coolidge, who features as a dippy employee in Mel and Mia’s store, can’t manage to elevate the turgid script.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2020
• Inter and Juventus played out a rather turgid 1-1 affair at San Siro, with neither side particularly satisfied with the outcome of the game.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• This emerges in his painfully maladroit efforts to lend color to a turgid narrative preoccupied with self-flattery and score-settling.
  — Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
• The ritual observation of the passage of FDR’s calendrical contrivance promises to be even more turgid than usual this year.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
• When the market crashed in 1987, for example, Fed officials planned to deliver a turgid technical response.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2022
• That turgid style appears to be incrementally changing in the wake of Diaz-Canel becoming president in April.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2018
• That turgid style appears to be incrementally changing in the wake of Mr. Diaz-Canel becoming president in April.
  — Andrea Rodriguez, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2018
• Babar needs to throw his weight around and demand more suitable home pitches otherwise Pakistan will start moulding into the turgid team that finished this mostly dreary series.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2022
• The next day the European Commission’s turgid daily press briefing was broadcast live on Catalan television.
  — The Economist, 14 Oct. 2017
• It was long branded untranslatable, a view reinforced by a turgid rendering published in 1931.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024