Sentence examples similar to a bloated sum from inspiring English sources

I'd recently abandoned teaching to go back to school full-time, which meant foolishly taking out several dozen thousand dollars in student loans to heap upon the $60,000 debt from my undergraduate education, bringing the sum total to a bloated figure in the six digits.

A bloated workforce.

It could even trim a bloated bureaucracy.

A bloated state saps public finances.

Obama inherited a bloated national-security state.

Everyone has a bloated glow.

It has been a bloated, overwrought embarrassment.

Or a bloated bag of tripe?

Xerox also has become a bloated machine.

"Darling Lili" was a bloated box-office bomb.

There are complaints from Washington about a bloated federal government.