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Example sentences for: deflates

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

A comment in the Independent on Sunday deflates entrepreneur and balloonist Richard Branson.
But Rosenbaum deflates it completely by cataloging it under the rubric "No More Mr. Nice Guy."
In the New Republic , Jed Perl deflates the hype surrounding Robert Rauschenberg's Guggenheim retrospective.
The cover story deflates the Alan Greenspan myth.
(David Plotz's "" of a generic man of the year deflates the genre.)