How to Use dilated in a Sentence

dilated

adjective

• Symptoms would have started more mildly with dilated pupils, dry skin and a racing heart.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• Delta 8 has been shown to slightly increase blood flow, which can result in dilated blood vessels in the eyes.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
• Her cognitive load and heart rate slowed, and her pupils became less dilated, all signs of relaxation.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
• Others couldn’t speak or had abnormally dilated pupils caused by pressure in the brain.
  — Thomas M. Burton, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
• The photo clearly shows the feline's dilated pupils and ears backward, which is exactly what cats look like when mad.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
• So Weiss sent most critical patients, those with dilated pupils and a slow pulse, straight to Sunrise.
  — Alden Woods, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2017
• Inside the lobby, a line of people with smeared eye makeup and dilated pupils snaked out of the bathrooms, laughing and flirting next to a wall of fake plants.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
• The child became lethargic and displayed dilated pupils after eating candy from trick-or-treating, Sgt.
  — Alyssa Stoney, azcentral, 5 Nov. 2019
• Meanwhile, harm reduction counselors and fellow drug users keep an eye on one another, checking for dilated pupils or labored breathing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• Redness-reducing eye drops work by constricting your dilated blood vessels, which does clear up the redness temporarily.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 25 May 2018
• Thanks to these four medication types, millions of patients with dilated, weak hearts are living much longer with a higher quality of life and staying out of the hospital.
  — William Cornwell, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
• Possible side effects include dryness of the skin, mouth, eyes, nose and throat; sore throat; headaches; blurred vision and dilated pupils; and constipation and trouble urinating.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 30 June 2018
• Despite the use of medications to treat dilated, weak hearts, some patients suffer from continued weakening of the heart muscle and progress to end-stage, or advanced, heart failure.
  — William Cornwell, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
• This dietary supplement is an antioxidant amino acid that helps increase the generation of nitric oxide, which can support healthy and dilated blood vessels.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2023
• Although physicians can use a test in which a puff of air is blown into your eye for screening, official diagnosis requires a dilated exam to scrutinize the optic nerve as well as other tests.
  — Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 2 Apr. 2020
• Adam woke up at the hospital six days later and learned that he had been diagnosed with a heart disease called dilated cardiomyopathy, which prevents the heart from pumping blood around the body effectively.
  — Duarte Dias, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
• First responders have accused Assad of targeting the Douma hospital with a poisonous chlorine bomb, and said that whole families were found dead with dilated pupils and foam at their mouths.
  — Jewish Journal, 11 Apr. 2018
• Greenwood was previously diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, but said that might not be a factor in what caused her heart attack last year, per the BBC.
  — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
• Cruising silently past a cast member in the inky blackness, undetected mere inches from their unseeing, wildly dilated eyes, crew members glimpse grief, agony, fear, joy, all of it framed by an unearthly green halo.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, Esquire, 1 Aug. 2017
• Give-away symptoms include dilated eyes, disorientation and anxiety, Speiser said.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2018
• Often by the time a patient sees a doctor, that person has already developed serious complications, including heart rhythm abnormalities or a dilated heart that doesn’t pump blood well.
  — Paula Andalo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• Their baby’s kidneys were more dilated than usual and underdeveloped, a relatively common condition.
  — Colleen Cronin, PEOPLE.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• Mutations in genes encoding cardiac myosin, for instance, can lead to cardiomyopathies, including hypertrophic and dilated forms, which affect the ability of the heart to pump blood effectively.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Apr. 2026
• At his desk, Pynchon is processing it all, absorbing it—like Emerson’s transparent eyeball, but hyper-dilated and a bit bleary from too much Panama Red.
  — John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
• Hypothermia starts with symptoms like shivering and slurred speech, and escalates to dazed consciousness, irrational behavior, decreased heart rate, dilated pupils and uncontrollable shivering in waves.
  — Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Oct. 2017
• The recipient, a 49-year-old woman with dilated cardiomyopathy, recovered smoothly and showed remarkably low cardiac enzyme levels, which is a key indicator of heart muscle health.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2025
• Diagnosis and Treatment Diabetic retinopathy can be diagnosed with a dilated fundus (retinal) exam.
  — Sherri Gordon, Health, 1 July 2023
• The girls' mother, Ashley Gaffney, was an infant when diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle that causes the heart chambers to thin and stretch, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
• According to the doctors, the baby’s kidneys were more dilated than usual, and also underdeveloped, a relatively common condition, affecting up to 30 percent of unborn babies.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 20 July 2019
• Symptoms can include abdominal pain or discomfort, blurred or double vision, dilated pupils, dizziness, drooping eyelid, dry or sore throat, facial muscle paralysis, nausea or vomiting, swollen belly, and trouble swallowing and speaking.
  — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 20 Jan. 2026