Words similar to ballooned

Example sentences for: ballooned

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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.
During the 1980s, however, the amount of inventory held by Federated ballooned while it faced bankruptcy.
Since she was last seen in public, the former White House intern has ballooned to almost 180 pounds.
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"?