Example Sentences

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“Just from a scientific, botanical perspective, there’s no way that a plant can lose that much of its turgidity — the positive water pressure that keeps its stem rigid,” she explains.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023

In a piece as graceful and zesty as the Ravel, the slowly accumulating strength of the orchestra could be taken for turgidity.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023

Every so often an academic article liberates itself from the bonds of turgidity that characterize scholarly prose, and instead welcome readers with a refreshing gust of literary flair.

From Salon • May 17, 2020

There was his batting, notable for its skill and tenacity but also for its turgidity and self-absorption, tending towards selfishness.

From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2019

Her nature was not capable of really understanding turgidity, but she did better than most people inasmuch as she avoided forming wrong judgments about it.

From Manslaughter by Miller, Alice Duer