Use of the word turgid in a sentence example

turgid

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The turgid waters of the river will subside. [adjective]

Although there is much to recommend this book, some chapters can be rather turgid, and the high price may well dissuade many. [adjective]

Some fairly turgid prose is often broken up by an acid aside, for which the reader is too often rather thankful. [adjective]

Clement professed to despite rhetoric, but was himself a rhetorician, and his style is turgid, involved and difficult. [Please select]

Never would he have more turgid, pent-up, tearing emotions to get rid of than now. [Please select]

As to Jeremy Taylor, "I confess that all that turgid rhetoric wearies me." [Please select]

Her heart was a volcano, seething, turgid, full of contending fires. [Please select]

He slipped into his place as the hansom wheeled into the turgid tide of west-bound traffic. [Please select]

Dominey felt as though he were breathing an atmosphere of turgid and poisoned sweetness. [Please select]

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