On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Turgid. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as tumescent or swollen and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Turgid meaning
- Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
- Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
- Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
Synonyms of Turgid
Using Turgid
- The main meaning on this page is: Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. | Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen. | Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
- Useful related words include: tumid, tumescent, intumescent, swollen.
- In the example corpus, turgid often appears in combinations such as: in turgid, turgid and.
Context around Turgid
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Turgid
- In this selection, "turgid" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, full, bleak, past, international and brisbane stand out and add context to how "turgid" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after a turgid past few and be a turgid affair with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "turgid" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with turgid
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That was a turgid performance. (5 words)
Your mind is already turgid and so you write them down. (11 words)
I think we’ve found Turgid Love Muscle’s separated-at-birth twin. (13 words)
Look at last year’s Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, a turgid and widely disliked blockbuster that many heralded as a sign of the end for Marvel Studios’ box office dominance. (32 words)
France’s Les Bleues were 2-1 winners over the Super Falcons of Nigeria in a turgid international friendly game played under frosty and misty weather in Angers on Saturday night. (31 words)
For the APL, the league’s administrators, watching these green shoots emerge is a godsend; after a turgid past few years, anything less would have been disastrous. (27 words)
Example sentences (13)
For the APL, the league’s administrators, watching these green shoots emerge is a godsend; after a turgid past few years, anything less would have been disastrous.
France’s Les Bleues were 2-1 winners over the Super Falcons of Nigeria in a turgid international friendly game played under frosty and misty weather in Angers on Saturday night.
Look at last year’s Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, a turgid and widely disliked blockbuster that many heralded as a sign of the end for Marvel Studios’ box office dominance.
The bad news is they are still a long way behind the rest of the league (apart from an even more turgid Brisbane Roar) side.
That was a turgid performance.
They can make Cadet Bone Spurs puff up to his full turgid three inches and strut around pretending to be tough.
Australia progressed to the Japan Rugby World Cup quarter-finals in turgid fashion, overcoming minnows Georgia in Pool D at Shizuoka Stadium 27-8.
But the first half proved to be a turgid affair with few chances created by either outfit.
The band released three great rock albums in The Turgid Miasma of Existence, respectively their darkest, most acclaimed and most popular recordings.
Frankly, that will do nicely after the bleak, turgid misery of the last two World Cups.
I think we’ve found Turgid Love Muscle’s separated-at-birth twin.
Your mind is already turgid and so you write them down.
Although it was often turgid, rambling, and inaccessible to most readers, it ran for 25 issues and was republished in book form a number of times.
Common combinations with turgid
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in turgid 2×
- turgid and 2×