How to Use ballooning in a Sentence

ballooning

noun
  • She's always wanted to go ballooning.
  • How about 11 more points, despite limping and hopping around to keep the pressure off his ballooning foot?
    Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2020
  • Meanwhile, some aldermen question the timing as the city faces a ballooning deficit due to the pandemic.
    Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The billions raised in the last few weeks will be used to fuel that ambition, as well as pay down ballooning debt at Jio's parent company.
    Michelle Toh, CNN, 5 June 2020
  • Amazon is also trying to smooth out its operations that were shifted to handle ballooning orders during the pandemic.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 11 June 2020
  • In response to their ballooning numbers, China imposed martial law in late May and ousted Western reporters.
    Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
  • 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
  • This year marks 41 years of ballooning in Plano and Collin County.
    Lea Lane, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • As the stern swung clockwise to the west, the bow, pushed by the ballooning cushion of water between it and the west bank, swung clockwise to the east.
    Brendan Crowley, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2021
  • On the back end, that meant adding cloud computing space to handle the ballooning numbers and staff on the help desk.
    USA Today, 7 Apr. 2021
  • But Biden didn’t win by as large a margin as Democrats hoped, and ballooning turnout didn’t win Democrats back the Senate.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 2020
  • But some inmates do not trust a system that has failed to control ballooning case counts in the past.
    SFChronicle.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • That’s driven the civil service salary bill to among the highest in the world and saddled Tunisia with a ballooning debt.
    Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Stay tuned for a story about the history of ballooning, airing on the Olympic Zone.
    NBC News, 27 July 2024
  • 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
  • Their next-door neighbors, Marc Hansen and his wife, Denise Newman, have a huge blue tarp ballooning over their home.
    Peg Quann, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Joro spiders can parachute to travel north but the ballooning process has less of a chance for survival.
    Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 5 June 2024
  • Usually, with a high-rise and a wide-to-downright-ballooning leg.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 July 2022
  • The plan will put a plug on the ballooning legal fees racked up by the bankruptcy proceedings.
    Bryan Pietsch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • France’s ballooning debt and a new budget will top Barnier’s agenda.
    Barbara Surk, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Gridlock would help restrain a ballooning deficit that many say is causing long-term interest rates to spike, threatening the bull market.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Earlier this year, Boohoo had to scrap a lucrative bonus plan amid reports of a shareholder backlash following ballooning losses.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 18 Oct. 2024

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