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Example sentences for: inflate

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In order for the wages of the skilled professionals who perform an opera to keep pace with those in other sectors of the economy, where productivity does improve, the cost must inflate.
"It's a combination of groupies and the rock press both serving to inflate the egos of these guys.
Foreign lenders have been willing to provide money only at very high interest rates (recently nearly triple world market rates)--and fears that the government would try to inflate away its debt, or simply default on it, led to interest rates on that (ruble-denominated) debt of as high as 150 percent.
The subgerminal cavity, distinct from the evacuation zone, begins to inflate under the embryonic shield, but little outside it.
The anti-stalking bill cost Clinton and several hundred members of Congress absolutely nothing, but allowed them to inflate their anti-crime résumés.