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 next day, his whole front leg was engorged and non-weight bearing.
    — Kevin Farron, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Her hands and forearms felt heavy, streaked with jagged veins engorged with blood.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Fragrances of flesh and fur and spines and rot reach him from a distance to engorge his nose.
    — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
  • These arthropods are more likely to prey on ticks when they are fully engorged with blood.
    — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The intention at least seems to be to depict a woman with breasts engorged with breastmilk.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 23 Oct. 2025
  • As the lungs constrict, blood vessels engorge to prevent them from collapsing.
    — Women's Health, 31 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The trees lose their leaves and the layer of woody tissue just under the bark became engorged with sap as the wounded trees struggled to survive.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
  • For later miscarriages that occur after the first trimester, breasts may also become engorged with milk and/or leak some breast milk.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 29 June 2023
  • Hormones build a new human being in utero, before engorging the mother’s breasts with milk to nourish the baby.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Others were perverts and criminals, their sense of power engorged by their victims’ weakness.
    — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The more your baby nurses, the more milk is produced, optimally at just the right level to keep your baby full but not engorge your breasts.
    — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 22 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • This second issue is pregnant with meaning, moments engorged and demanding to be explored.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rainfall has engorged the Santa Ana River and its channels, a reminder of their destructive threat.
    — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The Tittabawassee became engorged late Tuesday when the aging Edenville and Sanford dams failed after heavy rain.
    — CBS News, 22 May 2020
  • Crime gangs engorged by illicit profit think nothing of knocking out hospitals and sending desperate patients elsewhere.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • 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
  • But nearly any sort of blockage can wreak havoc on a roadway engorged with vehicles, mushrooming into delays for thousands of drivers and passengers.
    — David Gutman, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017

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