BALLOON in a Sentence
Learn BALLOON from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
33 example sentences for BALLOON, such as:
1. The balloon swelled out with gas.
2. We slowed the balloon's rate of descent.
3. The cat batted the balloon with its paws.
4. Huge balloons bobbed about in the sky above.
5. A thousand balloons were released to mark the event.
2. We slowed the balloon's rate of descent.
3. The cat batted the balloon with its paws.
4. Huge balloons bobbed about in the sky above.
5. A thousand balloons were released to mark the event.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Meanings and Examples of BALLOON
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balloon
n. large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
n. small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
Classic Sentence:
1 He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon.
2 Gases are generated in him; he swells to a prodigious magnitude; becomes a sort of animal balloon.
3 As the younger ones slipped up to him in his retreat, he kept taking things out of his pockets; penny dolls, a wooden clown, a balloon pig that was inflated by a whistle.
4 "Oh," she sighed, pegged down on a chair arm, like a captive balloon, by a myriad of hair-thin ties into domesticity.
5 A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.
6 Sonya, when he came in, was twirling round and was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down.
7 The balloon was not yet ready, but Pierre learned that it was being constructed by the Emperor's desire.
8 The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.
9 We have vanquished the hydra, and it is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
10 Lying back on the sofa, she read the manuscript carefully through, making dashes here and there, and putting in many exclamation points, which looked like little balloons.
11 He believed in all dreams, railroads, the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of balloons.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
12 All the windows of the boarding house were open and the lace curtains ballooned gently towards the street beneath the raised sashes.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 When the inserted balloon is filled with water, they bulge out in a variety of shapes.
2 The girl saw her balloon drift eastward and disappeared finally.
3 We talked to a spokesman for the balloon company, expressed his regrets of course, and says they're trying to determine what caused the freak fire.
4 The cat batted the balloon with its paws.
5 In 1998, he was lucky to survive when his balloon plummeted into the sea.
6 Since the early hours of the morning the team had been carrying out final checks and they'd started inflating the balloon.
7 A big problem during the preparation of the world's largest helium balloon has forced the manned balloon altitude record attempt to be stopped.
8 They floated the trial balloon of actually cutting Social Security.
9 The balloon descended gradually as the air came out.
10 With a supply of compressed air, the large balloon inflated in a matter of seconds.
11 Despite a number of setbacks, they persevered in their attempts to fly around the world in a balloon.
12 The balloon swelled out with gas.
13 We slowed the balloon's rate of descent.
14 Huge balloons bobbed about in the sky above.
15 A thousand balloons were released to mark the event.