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Example sentences for: inflate

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Again, with Celebration there is the tendency to inflate the ordinary into the extraordinary, as if the presence of Disney raised the ante, somehow.
The paper also goes front-page with word that GM plans to recall more than one million Cadillacs, Chevrolets and Pontiacs because their air bags can inflate without a crash.
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 correlation among DZ twins in conflict is suspiciously low because it is a smaller number than for any of the other networks this, of course, would inflate the overall heritability of the conflict network.
And advertisers, of course, complain that sweep months artificially inflate the amounts they pay for spots.