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turgid example sentences
turgid
1. We have these turgid nondescript
2. felt the book would help him understand the turgid and biased
3. The rest of the day was spent on the boring and turgid chores
4. which was far more exciting than the turgid weekly attempt at home
5. thickens, twists, and out of turgid necessity
6. Her face was as he remembered from their college days: turgid and puffy as though ready to explode from too much fluid; her eyes empty with dark shadows painted beneath them; the corners of her thin lips pointing downward, a permanent frown tattooed above her chin
7. Wading through all that turgid prose ought to stop him
8. through hooked fingers: she must have turgid bent fingers if
9. The water itself was turgid, gray-green even on sunny days, oil slicked, and reeking of diesel fuel and seaweed
10. And why must we learn that last? In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself
11. [Note 57: The above three lines are a parody on the turgid style of Lomonossoff, a literary man of the second Catherine's era
12. The play was a turgid coagulation of illogical episodes lacking in all plausibility