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How to use distending in a sentence

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He was huffing and puffing something fierce, distending his cheeks with every exhalation.
These second-generation devices require less operator skill than for hysteroscopic endometrial ablation and no irrigant or distending solutions.
When the valves do not function properly, the blood collects in the superficial veins, distending and twisting them.
Surgical drainage of the cavity, to prevent pressure from distending it further, may result in improvement.
Lying on your back, breathe in slowly while concentrating on distending your abdomen.
If this rapid efflux and influx is obstructed then the pressure wave is transmitted down the spinal cord distending it below the blockage.
At fifty thousand feet, any gases trapped in the body expand to more than eight times their volume at sea level, swelling intestines, rupturing lung tissue, and distending the abdomen until it hinders breathing.
He scowled and rescowled, raising his upper lip and distending his nostrils — a grimace that Bogdan would one day learn to recognize as threatening.
His interpretation of movement is highly baroque, distending bodies or contracting them to the point of rigidity, and no doubt owes a great deal to the gestures of theatre and drama.
The back of the child's head accordingly advances along the lower birth canal, distending its walls and dilating its cavity while the head progresses.
All its characteristics are influenced by bura, a northern wind streaming off Velebit which is distending away any attempt of the rain clouds to accumulate.
By that time a distinguishing element in his films was a total disregard for physical reality, as evidenced in the loose, elastic stretching and distending of the shapes of his characters.
Examples from Classical Literature
He could not face it and breathe, for it rushed in through his mouth and nostrils, distending his lungs like bladders.
This fish, with its flabby skin, is well known to possess the singular power of distending itself into a nearly spherical form.
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