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Dilate in sentence

16 examples of Dilate in a sentence

And their pupils would dilate, they would recoil, then they would look down and swallow hard and start to tell me their stories.
So basically a story, you get a physical reaction; your heart can race, your eyes can dilate, you could talk about, "Oh, I got a chill down my spine" or, "I could feel it in the pit of my stomach."
This is the mechanism by which you lower blood pressure, by which you dilate the coronary arteries also, to let the blood be supplied with the heart.
My pupils would dilate.
When your brain's having to work harder, your autonomic nervous system drives your pupil to dilate.
Your pupils dilate, your muscles contract, your Spidey sense tingles, basically your whole body is trigger-happy.
And so your heart starts to pound, Your pupils dilate, your airways open up, and you are ready to either fight that bear or run from the bear.
Your heart beats faster, your pupils dilate, and your body releases glucose for additional energy, not because you're in danger but because your body is telling you that something important is happening.
A fetus with such unrestricted access can manufacture hormones to increase the mother's blood sugar, dilate her arteries, and inflate her blood pressure.
Your pupils dilate, it's hard to read anything up close, like your notes, but long range is easy.
So you see a bear, your heart rate quickens, your pupils dilate, you feel frightened, you run very, very fast.
Instead, they have focused on strategies for preventing the kidneys from filtering the infused hemoglobin; the hemoglobin from leaking through the blood-vessel walls; and synthetic hemoglobin from destroying nitric oxide (a gas produced in blood vessels that helps them to dilate and increase blood flow).
His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, impatient snarl in reply.
After the soup the maid brought a boiled fowl--a piece of magnificence which caused the eyes of the diners to dilate in such a manner that they seemed ready to burst.
By degrees they dilate, and gain in huge size what they lose in number.
On the other hand, the stately form of the Norman appeared to dilate in magnitude, like that of the eagle, which ruffles up its plumage when about to pounce on its defenceless prey.