hot air

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Recent Examples of hot air And planets don’t revolve around the sun, hot air doesn’t rise, and gravity doesn’t bring falling leaves to Earth. Mark Z. Barabak, Twin Cities, 15 Oct. 2025 Dust devils form when hot air near the surface rises and spins, picking up dust along the way, Bickel said. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025 Every year, the Festival Chaman Teotihuacán is held at the ancient site, where hot air balloons take to the skies and papel picado, painting, and pottery classes fill the day. Sarah Buder, AFAR Media, 8 Oct. 2025 Eventually the hospital would evolve into the Norton Children's Hospital known today by its iconic hot air balloon logo. Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hot air
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot air
Noun
  • The anti-American side focuses exclusively on the tragedies, usually makes slavery the chief argument for the prosecution, and dismisses the triumphs as hypocritical rhetoric.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Karbler hopes the rhetoric begins to diminish.
    Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His early career was marked by the sort of gasconade many fans of the NFL had come to adore and many MLB executives and players had come to loathe.
    Robert Klemko, The MMQB, 13 July 2017
Noun
  • The entertainment industry is no stranger to individuals who espouse contested stories about screen hits, but the producers of Legacy of Lies have grown tired of his brags.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • While the sale hasn’t started just yet, there are tons of early Amazon Prime Day toy deals to get your holiday shopping started or snag a brag-worthy deal on a birthday gift.
    Anja Webb, Parents, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There has been chatter that the Tigers would force Kelly to make staffing changes if the team continued to struggle, especially on offense.
    Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Does the subconscious chatter feel louder than usual?
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hammy magniloquence risks alienating viewers, not just for an evening but for life, as does obscurity.
    The Economist, The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • Lewis Black’s rant against protein Doritos was classic Gen-X complaining, the kind of thing Denis Leary used to bleat between music videos on MTV back when MTV had music videos and not just endless reruns of pre-unionization Ridiculousness.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
  • On the season 7 premiere of The Kardashians, the SKIMS co-founder, 45, is asked about her ex's behavior, which has included online rants about Kardashian and her family.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • How to save gas money with Prime To save more at the pump, Amazon Prime users must simply link their Prime accounts to a free Earnify account.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Google is taking a bold step toward a cleaner energy future by supporting the first-of-its-kind corporate deal to back a gas power plant equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025

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