How to Use inflated in a Sentence

inflated

adjective

• She objects to the inflated salaries that many professional athletes now receive.
• On top of that, farmers had to deal with inflated feed and fuel costs.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 15 May 2023
• The bad news is that the aftereffects of the GPU shortage still linger, mainly in the form of inflated prices.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2022
• What isn’t normal is his inflated sense that life is all about him.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 13 June 2023
• But even if that’s not the case, do the inflated numbers on the display count as greenwashing?
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
• This air couch can stay inflated for up to six hours, and when the day is done, the carry bag helps with storage and transport.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 21 July 2023
• Don’t pay an inflated price for a rose, let alone one that probably won’t grow well for you.
  — Benjamin Whitacre, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
• The play’s lead swans in late to the first day of rehearsals brandishing an inflated ego and a pile of NDAs for everyone to sign.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• For me, Michael is an internal struggle between the light and the dark, the pure, humble nature and the ego that’ll get big and inflated.
  — Vulture, 11 June 2023
• Beach umbrellas as well as a flotilla of inflated rafts and water toys add to the spirit of fun.
  — Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2023
• Even using the distance to Las Vegas would be an inflated gauge.
  — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• The available food is being sold at inflated prices and most people are surviving on one meal a day, the U.N. said.
  — NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
• The Times reports that while the sovereign wealth funds may decide to hold onto their stakes, the rest are keen to sell up at the inflated figure.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 11 Dec. 2023
• Rather than passing on inflated prices to consumers, Rainbow Blossom is choosing to take most of the price hit.
  — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 7 Nov. 2022
• The inflated taxi fare left them without enough money to afford the $90 tickets for a bus to New York City, stranding them in Plattsburgh.
  — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• However, the spread and total feel slightly inflated for such a huge game.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
• The victories which Trump can claim—the ones which undergird his inflated win-loss claims—largely came in safe races.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2022
• Many were lined up at a small hill, waiting their turn to ride down on inflated tubes that would deposit them into a forest of spindly maple trees.
  — Rivka Galchen, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2023
• And the third traces the rise and fall of Aristophil, a French company that purchased rare manuscripts and sold shares of them at inflated prices to an unsuspecting public.
  — Elizabeth Held, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• Companies and consumers should brace for a new normal of inflated prices and supply chain snags, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest food and beverage providers.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2022
• The discovery made the family feel festive, but the inflated prices chipped away at their savings.
  — Amy Schoenfeld Walker, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• The records showed inflated bank-account balances for the multi-strategy funds, the lawsuit says.
  — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2023
• This trend should be in the same wastebasket as mullets, microwave dinners and inflated lips.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
• The union said Amazon launched a recruitment drive that inflated headcount at the warehouse to counter the effort to organize.
  — Ali Asad Zulfiqar, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
• And a lot of us are really feeling the effects of an inflated economy.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Nov. 2023
• For the first 12 days of the release, Pathaan, played with premium ticket prices in India and managed to score huge numbers despite the inflated prices.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• But the Fed Chair also noted that many Americans continue to feel the pinch of still-high grocery prices and inflated rents.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
• The Vikings aren’t terribly overvalued in the futures market by any means, with a win total of just 8.5, but this feels like an inflated line.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
• Office will then unzip the archive file and execute the inflated Emotet DLL that infects the device.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
• The goal isn’t so much a massively inflated upper lip, but rather one that stays visible all the time and, in my case, doesn’t result in lipstick on your teeth.
  — Ana Escalante, Glamour, 6 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024