How to Use inflate in a Sentence

inflate

verb

• We used a pump to inflate the raft.
• Rapid economic growth may cause prices to inflate.
• Economists warn that rapid economic growth could inflate prices.
• Increased competition has inflated salaries among professional athletes.
• The whole thing is easy to set up—inflate, fill, and add your ice.
  — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2024
• That could mean inflated prices at the top of the market.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• But the price of other goods has kept inflating over the past year.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 12 July 2023
• Second, the bones are large and look like they’ve been inflated.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2023
• The above-ground pool inflates in 30 minutes and can hold eight or more people.
  — Veronica Graham, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
• The ewe brought a bowl of milk, while the lion painted a large balloon, filled it with four seeds of wheat, and inflated it.
  — Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
• Airbags, which inflate forcefully in the event of a crash, can injure small children.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• Setup: The pump inflates the whole mattress in about two minutes.
  — Sabrina Rojas Weiss, Parents, 11 July 2023
• Of course, there’s a good chance bottles might start to show up on the secondary market, but no telling how much the price will be inflated.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2023
• In the case a tear does happen, there are multiple air chambers to still keep the kayak inflated.
  — Courtney Campbell, goodhousekeeping.com, 12 May 2023
• Setting up the paddle board is simple and takes about six minutes to inflate.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• Old Navy and Boohoo reached settlements in the last two years for falsely inflating prices.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• But to inflate that reality is a choice, and the choice has consequences.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• The tube is easy to inflate, with a clever soft ruler to indicate optimum fullness.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
• And this isn’t a case of one season inflating the Cowboys’ standing.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• As for the collapsible part of the equation, each LCD decoy uses a small ‘pop’ valve under the tail to inflate/deflate.
  — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
• Several of us wondered if somehow the tires had been inflated to, say, 60 psi.
  — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 6 July 2023
• JPMorgan claims that the startup used the tool to artificially inflate, or fake, the number of users Frank had.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
• In just a few minutes it can be inflated and ready for active, bouncy toddlers.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 16 Oct. 2023
• Among other things, a large plastic balloon was inflated and a man, the artist Lucas Samaras, swung on ropes just above the viewers’ heads.
  — Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• The Fed wants hiring to slow because intense demand for labor tends to inflate wages and feed inflation.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2023
• And while a catchy new title and sky-high views could inflate anyone’s ego, Fitzgerald seems determined to remember what got him into the trade in the first place.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2023
• When inflated, the cubic lantern measures six inches in all directions and packs down to just an inch tall for easy transport.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
• The suit claims that Glynn did not disclose that the other co-founder intended to leave, and that the company’s revenue figures were inflated.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 22 Dec. 2023
• In a video that made the rounds on social media, the gingerbread man decoration is seen inflated in the front yard, when a white cargo van pulls up.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2023
• Mason’s first arrest was in 2012 for inflating returns to her clients as a tax preparer.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024