He distended her abdomen with carbon dioxide so there would be more space to work, and asked for music, soft rock, to be turned on.
"When you add pressurized air to the mix, bellies bloat and get distended," he says.
Two weeks later, his condition worsened; he refused food, his abdomen was distended, and he had colicky pain.
He's got a long face, and his jaw slightly distends, which gives him this flutey voice.
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In his essay "A Defence of Poetry," when he claims and possibly believes that he is describing the effect of Bacon's prose, he is actually talking about his own verse: "it is a strain which distends and then bursts the circumference of the hearer's mind and pours itself forth together with it into the universal element with which it has perpetual sympathy".
At one level this is entertaining stuff, but it distracts, distorts, and distends our politics.
Daniel Fisher suspends his porcelains upside down so he can pull and distend the clay into creased and rippled surfaces of a paperlike quality.
She stood nearby, in an orange T-shirt and blue sweatpants, beaming at Mr. Boal as he deftly negotiated the distended leaps and broken porte de bras of "Suspended," a new solo she created for him to Henryk Gorecki's dark, driving String Quartet No. 2. Seven minutes later, Mr. Boal was panting.
According to doctors, his abdomen was so distended that he looked nine months pregnant.
On examination, his lower abdomen appeared distended and he was found to have a residual volume of 1200cc on catheterisation.
