Sentence examples for tumesce from inspiring English sources

With a rubbing motion, thrill the skins of the tomatoes until they start to pucker and tumesce.

The owners are husband and wife James Knappett and Sandia Chang: between them they have CVs to make the spoddiest of restaurant spods tumesce on the spot: Per Se, Noma, Roganic, The Ledbury.

You also see burned piles of household garbage, cotton-candy-pink tufts of insulation foam, turquoise PVC pipes, sodden couches tumescing like sea sponges and abandoned cars.