To increase in size or circumference, often by muscular action or by the influence of a substance.
His pupils began to dilate as he stared into the bright lights, his eyes widening in amazement. The sudden surge of excitement made his chest feel larger.
The scanner hummed, its light probing the alien tissue. He held his breath as the tiny vessels in the sample began to dilate, growing wider under the gentle heat. A faint blush spread, a sign of the intricate biological process unfolding before him, a silent bloom of life.
The tiny pupil of the bioluminescent cave creature began to dilate, a slow widening as it sensed the vibrations of the approaching geologist. Darkness pressed in, and the creature's eye needed to capture every scant photon, stretching its diameter to better see the looming threat.
My eyes wanted to dilate like saucers when I saw the pizza. Each pepperoni seemed to grow bigger and bigger, its cheesy circumference widening with every hungry glance. My stomach, too, started to dilate in anticipation of that cheesy goodness.
My pet hamster, Bartholomew, munched on a crumb of cheese. Suddenly, his tiny eyes began to dilate, growing wider and wider until they looked like two marbles. He must have eaten a special cheese that made them dilate a whole lot.
The bright lights of the stage made her pupils, accustomed to darkness, suddenly dilate. She felt a surge of panic as the crowd's faces blurred, her whole world seemed to expand, her heart pounding harder against her ribs.
The ancient runes on the artifact pulsed with a faint light. As Elara touched it, a strange warmth spread through her fingertips. Her pupils began to dilate, not from fear, but from a sudden, overwhelming surge of understanding. The carvings seemed to stretch, their intricate patterns expanding before her eyes, revealing a hidden message.
His pupils began to dilate, widening as the dim light filtered through the cracked viewport. Fear made them grow larger, reflecting the vast, starless void outside. He desperately wished for more light.
My eyes would often dilate when the smell of pizza wafted from the kitchen, my pupils widening in anticipation of cheesy goodness. My stomach, too, seemed to dilate, making room for an impossible amount of pepperoni.
Barnaby the badger, after a particularly delightful raid on a berry patch, found his pupils begin to dilate with pure, unadulterated joy. His stomach, having achieved peak roundness, seemed to expand with a similar, happy elasticity, making his overalls feel just a tad snug.
Fear made her pupils dilate as the alley darkened. She could feel her eyes widening, stretching to capture every sliver of light, a desperate attempt to see what lurked ahead, her very vision expanding with apprehension.
The adventurer watched, heart pounding, as the strange, bioluminescent spores began to dilate. Tiny sacs, once no bigger than pinheads, swelled and expanded, their soft glow intensifying. He knew this was his only chance; the cavern walls were about to dilate further, revealing the path ahead.
The deep, resonant hum of the ancient artifact vibrated through Elias’s bones. He watched in awe as the intricate carvings on its surface began to dilate, widening perceptibly, absorbing the scarce light of the cavern. A strange warmth spread from the stone, a palpable energy unfurling like a blooming, alien flower.
The tiny mouse, upon witnessing the colossal cheese wheel, began to dilate with pure, unadulterated joy. His pupils, previously the size of pinheads, expanded to accommodate the glorious, dairy orb, his stomach rumbling in anticipation of the momentous feast to come.
The startled garden gnome, upon witnessing a particularly audacious caterpillar attempt to pilfer his tiny watering can, began to visibly dilate. His painted-on eyes widened, his stubby legs expanded like overinflated balloons, and his ceramic belly swelled alarmingly, a testament to his sudden, intense astonishment.
The harsh desert sun beat down, forcing his pupils to dilate against the blinding glare. He yearned for the cool reprieve of shade, hoping the involuntary expansion would offer some solace, some slight mitigation of the persistent discomfort.
Beneath the dim glow of the bioluminescent fungi, the subterranean explorer watched his pupils dilate, a profound expansion driven by the stark contrast to the oppressive darkness. This enlargement, a visceral response to the faint luminescence, was crucial for gathering every available photon in the abyssal environment.
The suffocating pressure within the hermetic chamber intensified; fear caused the pupils to dilate to their maximum extent, seeking any sliver of egress in the oppressive darkness as the air grew thin and acrid.
The unsuspecting tadpole, upon ingesting a particularly effervescent gummy worm, found its ocular orifices begin to dilate with a startling alacrity. Its pupils, once modest pinpricks, swelled to the prodigious circumference of dinner plates, an unexpected consequence of the confection's peculiar, albeit delightful, biochemical influences.
The avant-garde chef's *gelée de canard*, a nebulous concoction featuring luminescent subterranean fungi, was designed to profoundly *dilate* the gustatory senses. He’d procured a rare extract from the fabled Giggling Truffle, rumored to instantaneously increase circumference of taste buds, a veritable sensory expansion that verged on the precipitous.
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