bloats

present tense third-person singular of bloat

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloats
Verb
  • This outdoor garden pod has a floor-to-ceiling window that drenches the entire space in natural light.
    Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
  • Cinematographer Paul Guilhaume drenches the film in dark blues and grainy blacks, as deeply unsettling as Cristina’s canvases.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
Verb
  • This is the essence of GPS spoofing, in which an attacker floods a GPS receiver with deceptive signals.
    Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Melatonin floods the brain and body, telling each cell that night has come.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • On The Porch There’s a particular kind of magic that comes when the sun dips below the treetops and the soundtrack of a summer evening fills the air—crickets, cicadas, and whip-poor-wills.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 4 July 2026
  • Rihanna fills two spaces on the Billboard Global 200 and three on the Billboard Global Excl.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • Here in the famous Festival Theatre, the sprite Ariel, played in splendidly sprightly fashion by Marissa Orjalo, opens up the top of a piano, a piece of island flotsam and Prospero, in the form of the veteran actor Geraint Wyn Davies, shoves his coat inside, throws up his hands and closes the lid.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • In the video, the officers appear to shout at the man walking near multiple vehicles before a group shoves the man toward the sidewalk.
    Dan Raby, CBS News, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Intelligent power switches can monitor electrical flow while controlling loads more efficiently.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
  • The app decrypts the file and loads it into the appropriate editing program.
    Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Though the darkness of the material never swamps the comedy, a balance McGee calibrated deliberately — less interested in the whodunit than in the women fumbling through it.
    Kennedy French, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The repairs should keep water from damaging the telescope, as cold, wet and windy weather arrives and swamps the Bay Area into next week, potentially bringing snow to Mount Hamilton.
    Joaquin Palomino, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Luckily, this deal squashes that qualm by knocking over $300 from the sticker shocker!
    Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 4 July 2026
  • Chicken, bacon, and ranch might as well be the holy trio that squashes all fights and satisfies every hangry complaint.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026
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“Bloats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloats. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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