INFLATE in a Sentence
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65 example sentences for INFLATE, such as:
1. A few bidders inflated the prices on purpose.
2. Many people want to know who decides to inflate the currency.
3. The promotion of a big release can inflate a film'sfinal cost.
4. The media have grossly inflated the significance of this meeting.
5. The numbers of people involved have been grossly inflated by the media.
2. Many people want to know who decides to inflate the currency.
3. The promotion of a big release can inflate a film'sfinal cost.
4. The media have grossly inflated the significance of this meeting.
5. The numbers of people involved have been grossly inflated by the media.
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Meanings and Examples of INFLATE
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inflate
v. increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
v. become inflated
Classic Sentence:
1 If I had anything by means of which I could inflate the lungs," said d'Avrigny, looking around him, "perhaps I might prevent suffocation.
2 Old Colonel Raleigh had come to Lincoln from Kentucky and invested an inherited fortune in real estate, at the time of inflated prices.
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 She was a subscriber for all the "Health" periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils.
5 A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.
6 "Arthur Charpentier, sub-lieutenant in Her Majesty's navy," cried Gregson, pompously, rubbing his fat hands and inflating his chest.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
7 Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the foolish virgins.
8 The husband replied by that imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar.
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1 Many people want to know who decides to inflate the currency.
2 The promotion of a big release can inflate a film'sfinal cost.
3 The manner of his election will have failed to impress, with a hugely inflated voters roll, the theft of ballot boxes by the army.
4 In these days of inflated prices, my salary provides a mere subsistence.
5 President Obama's advice to keep your tires properly inflated is actually a very simple and effective measure.
6 The simple reality is that anybody who wants to be the leader of this country is some kind of masochist with a massively inflated ego.
7 One of the results of the internet bubble is that certain inelastic inputs had highly inflated prices.
8 With a supply of compressed air, the large balloon inflated in a matter of seconds.
9 The numbers of people involved have been grossly inflated by the media.
10 The media have grossly inflated the significance of this meeting.
11 A few bidders inflated the prices on purpose.
12 It resolves shareholder allegations that Fannie Mae defrauded shareholders and inflated its stock by issuing false and misleading statements about its internal controls, capitalization, accounting, and exposure to subprime and low-documentation "Alt-A" mortgages.
13 Since the early hours of the morning the team had been carrying out final checks and they'd started inflating the balloon.
14 Nurses refused to accept a pay settlement less than the rate of inflation.
15 Relative rates of house price inflation have evened out across the country.