How to Use ballooning in a Sentence

ballooning

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  • She's always wanted to go ballooning.
  • An aneurysm is a ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • But by the late 2000s, the Roys were saddled with ballooning debt.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The ballooning cash spent on the 2022 Senate race could be a harbinger of things to come.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
  • In the eyes of many locals, his investments bring to the fore the ballooning cost of real estate in the area.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • And the relief does nothing to address the ballooning cost of college.
    — Bianca VÁzquez Toness, Chron, 25 Aug. 2022
  • For decades, the project kept chugging along, even amid concerns about ballooning costs.
    — Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2023
  • That will help take some of the air out the the ballooning economy that has, in part, sent inflation surging.
    — Cnn Business, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The sheer top ballooning down to a voluminous skirt is an outfit that wouldn’t be out of place in 2022.
    — Indya Brown, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
  • This is the world’s premier ballooning event with over 500 balloons.
    — Jeff and Patti Kinzbach, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
  • All the while, the genre Tainy helped steer as a teenager kept ballooning, becoming bigger and more global by the day.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
  • Usually, with a high-rise and a wide-to-downright-ballooning leg.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 July 2022
  • Here’s how ballooning debt and a standoff with the Teamsters union led to Yellow’s downfall.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The pricey pie has seen ballooning costs and delays in the last decade with slices heading to dozens of aerospace companies across the nation.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2022
  • This led to content costs ballooning to nearly $30 billion in the last fiscal year.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 May 2023
  • It’s been 15 years since the world’s elite ballooning pilots have gathered in the United States for a race with roots that stretch back more than a century.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The big ballooning pleats and pooling hems of the ’90s signaled an indifference to the style, often serving as a place to clip one’s pager.
    — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
  • Dunn placed her hands on the rock ballooning above it, which represents the resurgence of life in the millions of years after the asteroid struck.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Hamilton has just had a couple of weeks off, hiking, hot-air ballooning, losing at chess to his nephew.
    — Robin Swithinbank, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Sullivan got his first taste of gas ballooning in 1985.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The light filtering through the ballooning sheer ball skirt, the glint of gold from the snake jewelry, and the raindrops dotting the puff-sleeve top elevate its panache.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In 2008, Bonneville tried to halt ballooning fish and wildlife costs and lawsuits with a series of funding agreements.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
  • But this is all part of Apple's ballooning services business and this is a huge part of the company's future.
    — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • With ballooning costs of health care, high deductibles are on the rise — even though people don’t always have the financial cushion to pay them.
    — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Finally, stocks and bonds are feeling the effect from the ballooning US budget deficit.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The solution seems apparent and the ballooning issue is just around the corner.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • They’re linked to chronic constipation and long bouts of sitting on the toilet, which can allow blood to pool in vessels there and cause the ballooning.
    — Elizabeth Millard, Men's Health, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Brands, has faced falling demand for its products and ballooning costs in recent years.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The result was a reduction in government revenue and a ballooning of Britain’s debt.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • School meal debt added up for many students, whose families may not have been used to paying for school meals or struggled to keep up with ballooning food prices.
    — Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023

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