Example sentences for: ballooned

How can you use “ballooned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Or with the Star 's complaint that Titanic star Kate Winslet "ballooned up the minute she got off the boat and loosened up her corsets"?

  • One year after the auction, the population of Las Vegas had ballooned to 1500 residents, a portent of things to come for the next ninety years.

  • The raunchy patter between Eastwood and James Woods as his editor in chief might have made for classic scenes if the former had known how to rein in the latter: Woods has ballooned into such a self-congratulatory grotesque that he now upstages his own blowhard characters.

  • Since she was last seen in public, the former White House intern has ballooned to almost 180 pounds.

  • During the 1980s, however, the amount of inventory held by Federated ballooned while it faced bankruptcy.


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