How to Use bloated in a Sentence

bloated

adjective
  • I felt bloated from eating too much.
  • Or the sky, a bit bloated, lets one off.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The 144-game league phase is a bloated joke.
    — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • How to keep the profile svelte—or at least not bloated—is the trick.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2021
  • And the hour became so bloated.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The bloated corpse of a man with a wide gash in his throat lay staring up at the sky.
    — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Maybe the place is bloated from Covid-era hiring.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026
  • My chest is super flat but my stomach is bloated and hard as a rock.
    — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Have there not been even more bloated and infantile heads of state?
    — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
  • But the small diskettes couldn’t keep up with the demands of bloated software.
    — Emily Price, PCMAG, 4 July 2024
  • My core felt stronger and my bloated lower belly, tighter.
    — Essence, 5 Dec. 2025
  • What looked like a fortress of brands turned out to be a structure too bloated to compete.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At 17 songs, Ego Death might seem bloated.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Even a single bite will doom you to perish bloated on the toilet.
    — Ryan Chapman, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • Unai Emery relies on a tight core rather than a bloated squad.
    — Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2025
  • That is largely due to a squad shorn of the bloated egos of tournaments past.
    — Sean Williams, The New Republic, 10 July 2018
  • Last year, the female in the tank began to look a little bloated.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The second film was a bit too bloated for my tastes and one that didn’t add much to what came before.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 June 2026
  • There is a lot of talent, but also bloated contracts bound to age like milk.
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • His face was bloated and yellow, the corners of his eyes sudsy with discharge.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • 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
  • Too much of that debt was tied up in high-risk mortgages made in a bloated housing sector.
    — Michael Schuman, Bloomberg.com, 29 June 2017
  • Our bloated budget is over-burdened by waste, fraud, and decadence.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Nothing ruins a great meal like feeling too bloated.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Well, a less bloated one, probably.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Betelgeuse is huge and bloated, wielding 20 times the sun’s heft.
    — National Geographic, 26 Dec. 2019
  • This happens to be the guilty-free version that won't leave you with a carb-hangover – tired and bloated.
    — Abby Cuffey, Woman's Day, 20 May 2011
  • The public sector across the world can often seem bloated and inert.
    — Adrian Wooldridge, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2025
  • But as the tournament opens, all of it feels rote and bloated, like a list of big-event boxes to be checked off.
    — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 11 June 2026

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