How to Use bloated in a Sentence

bloated

adjective

• I felt bloated from eating too much.
• 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
• It’s got a wide, bloated body, tiny round eyes and stout limbs.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
• 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
• At nightfall, workers pulled the bloated corpses, one by one, out of the boat with a crane.
  — Renata Brito, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2020
• 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
• All the Time,’ a sweaty, bloated mess of a movie that flushes a knockout ensemble down the drain.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 12 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Kent, who played in the heart of the steroid era with bloated offensive numbers, simply might have come along at the wrong time.
  — Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2021
• The draft was becoming so over-the-top, bloated and grandiose that the Super Bowl was getting jealous.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 22 Apr. 2020
• The last two weeks starches and then sodium, just to kind of get as bloated as possible.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2022
• Part of the nose is missing, and the features are bloated beyond recognition.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• The ‘bomb squad’ and what seemed to be, on paper, a bloated squad, sparked more negative headlines.
  — Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
• Koop said that split could saddle the state with bloated expenses for its share.
  — James Barragán, Dallas News, 9 Oct. 2020
• Superhero movies, mostly bloated and aimless barges, tend to run aground on the shoals of time.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2020
• Theory predicts that the hotter a white dwarf is, the more bloated its outer layers should be.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
• That dynamic was laid bare this week when Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk killed a 1,500-page government spending bill for being too bloated.
  — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025