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Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLOATED
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bloated
 a.  swollen or puffed as with water or air
Classic Sentence:
1  His pallid bloated face expressed benevolent malice and, as he had advanced through his tidings of success, his small fat-encircled eyes vanished out of sight and his weak wheezing voice out of hearing.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  There was a mocking smile on the bloated face which seemed to drive me mad.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  The last glimpse I had was of the bloated face, blood-stained and fixed with a grin of malice which would have held its own in the nethermost hell.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  He would place his white hands beside the coarse bloated hands of the picture, and smile.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
6  Melanie lay in bed in her nightgown, her eyes closed and circled with black, her heart-shaped face bloated, her slender body hideous and distorted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  Her glimpse of tasks involving millions of people and a score of nations reduced Main Street from bloated importance to its actual pettiness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  War, the red animal, war, the blood-swollen god, would have bloated fill.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
9  The other, a bull-necked youth with coarse bloated features, was standing in front of the window with his hands in his pocket, whistling a popular hymn.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
10  The old men, dim-eyed, toothless, bald, sallow, and bloated, or gaunt and wrinkled, were especially striking.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
11  Whisky was showing in his face and the hard line of his long jaw was being obscured under an unhealthy bloat and puffs rising under his bloodshot eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
Example Sentence:
1  Her bloated stomach came from drinking so much water.
2  Her body bloated and puffed up till pain seemed to burst out through her skin.