How to Use engorge in a Sentence

engorge

verb

• The species is dark brown and grows to about the size of a pea when engorged on blood.
  — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The species is dark brown and grows to about the size of a pea when engorged on the blood of its hosts.
  — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Her hands and forearms felt heavy, streaked with jagged veins engorged with blood.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Both of my breasts were engorged to porn-star status, and the pain that radiated from them took my breath away.
  — Erin Zammett Ruddy, Redbook, 18 Sep. 2017
• Most foie gras is made by force-feeding ducks and geese through a tube to engorge their livers up to 10 times their normal sizes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
• The Mississippi River, which runs through the city, has been engorged for months as snowmelt and rainfall make their way down from the Midwest.
  — Fox News, 11 July 2019
• Gums bleed and blacken, then engorge and protrude over the teeth or their absent weeping sockets like a dark second set of lips.
  — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2021
• The benign ones simply engorge themselves on your blood (or even worse, your precious dog’s blood), and the worst ones give you Lyme disease.
  — Katie Heaney, The Cut, 25 June 2018
• Our third shift on Schoolhouse, Dalton watched from across the canyon as a fire whirl engorged, swelling into a fire spout funneling hundreds of feet above the ground fire.
  — Longreads, 9 May 2017
• The Tittabawassee became engorged late Tuesday when the aging Edenville and Sanford dams failed after heavy rain.
  — CBS News, 22 May 2020
• My Uncle Keong is the expert in tying the bundle up with straw, tightening just enough to hold it together, as the steaming will puff up the rice and engorge the dumpling.
  — May Klisch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2019
• As the lungs constrict, blood vessels engorge to prevent them from collapsing.
  — Women's Health, 31 July 2023
• For later miscarriages, after the first trimester, breasts may also become engorged with milk and/or leak some breast milk.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 29 June 2023
• But this year’s wet winter created a record Sierra Nevada snowpack, and the melt has engorged the river with swift, frigid water.
  — Meg Bernhard, latimes.com, 5 July 2017
• Scientists have found the bodies of ticks preserved in amber, some stuck to dinosaur feathers, and one engorged with what could well be dinosaur blood.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2017
• Rainfall has engorged the Santa Ana River and its channels, a reminder of their destructive threat.
  — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Once sufficiently engorged, the larvae drop off the wounds to pupate, emerging as a new generation of flies.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 May 2020
• Ear Spring geyser, located in Yellowstone National Park, had long been engorged by years of trash left inside of it by ill-mannered tourists.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2018
• Researchers think a supermassive black hole is either engorging a giant mass of gas or ripping apart a star.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• Wheel wells are now engorged with extremely low-profile 20-inch dinner plates — just waiting to be eaten by a Detroit pothole.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2019
• With the hot weather, Washingtonians will likely seek out rivers and lakes for swimming, which should be engorged with melted snowpack from the mountains.
  — Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
• Puberty was no prerequisite: boys as young as seven could engorge themselves with silk and satin.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 23 May 2020
• Folwell and her colleagues found that snake clitorises contain a tapestry of blood vessels and nerve endings, hinting that the organs can engorge and feel.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2022
• Others were perverts and criminals, their sense of power engorged by their victims’ weakness.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2019
• This second issue is pregnant with meaning, moments engorged and demanding to be explored.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Then again, movie fights can certainly go pear-shaped when technology is funneled down our gullets with liver-engorging force.
  — Mary H. K. Choi, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2011
• That legacy is now under threat, after New York City voted in 2019 to ban the sale of foie gras, arguing that the way it is prepared, by force-feeding ducks to engorge their livers, amounts to torture and animal cruelty.
  — Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• In the video, the male turkey - snood engorged, tail feathers spread extravagantly - struts briskly after the U.S. Postal Service vehicle, circling the boxy white truck and lunging as the mail carrier inserts envelopes in each box along the block.
  — Laura Reiley, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2019
• In the video, the male turkey — snood engorged, tail feathers spread extravagantly — struts briskly after the U.S. Postal Service vehicle, circling the boxy white truck and lunging as the mail carrier inserts envelopes in each box along the block.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• Owners hardly flinch at paying those players millions upon millions in an effort to reach the Super Bowl and engorge already bloated bank accounts.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024