Example Sentences

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The average fellow who occasionally complains "I've got gas on my stomach" may indeed be uncomfortable be cause gas is distending some part of his digestive tract.

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It is distending food, not drink, which forms the large carcase.

From Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding by Greenwood, George