He chose to distend his sweater so as to be able to carry home all the apples. From LearnThat.org.
The history of the word "distend" stretches back to the Latin verb "tendere". From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
Her nostrils distend with the memory of cherished scents. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Matador’s Hotel] Reference
His astonished warriors saw Yar Afzal's eyes distend, the color ebb from his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
In a short time the bag began to distend and then the balloon took shape and form. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference
You will find it impossible to breathe, for the muscles of your chest will distend the ribs. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Made Plans] Reference
Shall we distend a little the debate and go back for a while to the climate sensitivity issue?. From Wordnik.com. [Gore Gored: Monckton replies – Round 2 « Climate Audit] Reference
The chivalrous sentiments of war fire his eye, distend his breast, and give erectness to his figure. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
The effect of this motion is to still further excite and still more distend all the organs involved. From Wordnik.com. [Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise] Reference
It seemed as if his deep blue eye would distend until it swallowed up the thousands of his audience. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850] Reference
This again allows the yeast plants time to produce gas which will distend the dough to twice its size. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
From the outside it seemed pregnant, a tiny turret on top that seemed to distend into a bulbous lower level. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of the Humpback Whale]
She was seized by the nose and chin, as if she had been a horse, and made to distend her jaws even painfully. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
During the procedure, air is pumped into the colon to distend it and make it easier for the gastroenterologist to see. From Wordnik.com. ['Take a Deep Breath...'] Reference
Potatoes distend it all right -- I feel like I have swallowed one wing of Fleischman's yeast factory whenever I eat them. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
"Kelly-get the blood pressure cuff inflated to one hundred millimeters of mercury so I can distend and locate the vessels.". From Wordnik.com. [The Savage Horde]
An infant has thus either to distend its stomach with a large quantity of watery nourishment, or else to get insufficient food. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition] Reference
The amount of water usually injected at one time -- from one pint to two quarts -- can hardly be said to distend the bowels at all. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
The proliferation of electronic information via the Web has witnessed the unique characteristics of information distend yet further. From Wordnik.com. [May « 2005 « ResourceShelf] Reference
Shagram stare with his eyes, distend his nostrils, and tremble with terror, hinted that “he surely saw more than they could see.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
When my moose-meat spluttered rowdily in the frying-pan, I noticed old Ebbits's nostrils twitch and distend as he caught the food-scent. From Wordnik.com. [THE WHITE MAN'S WAY] Reference
In the female, the ovary is frequently the seat of dropsical accumulation to such an extent as to distend the abdomen very considerably. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Harawwah valley, we came to a Gudabirsi village, where my companions halted to inquire the news, also to distend their stomachs with milk. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
I saw her body stiffen, her corn-flower eyes distend and darken, her red lips part; and her women bent to each other, whispering, while the murmur of the crowd swelled. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference
Ebbits's nostrils twitch and distend as he caught the food-scent. From Wordnik.com. [Love of Life and Other Stories] Reference
They have a tendency to distend and rupture over a period of time. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
All the blood in him seemed to rush to his head and distend the veins there. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Range] Reference
At times he would distend himself with pneumatic vestments in the rococo vein. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Space and Time] Reference
His stomach, distend it as he will -- it is very small -- resents being distended. From Wordnik.com. [Tea-Table Talk] Reference
It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. From Wordnik.com. [A Study in Scarlet] Reference
The action of the elastic coat ceases; and no one will assert that a muscular fibre has power to distend itself. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
They are never scoriaceous, for the steam with which they were charged was not allowed to expand and distend them with steam blebs. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
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