How to Use ballooning in a Sentence

ballooning

noun

• 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
• Then March, then April, then May, then June, the debt ballooning.
  — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Why not just go hot-air ballooning with Richard Branson and call it a day?
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
• 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
• An aneurysm is a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel in your brain that develops due to a weakness in the artery wall.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 22 Mar. 2019
• 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
• In a modern context, though, ballooning is a niche sport.
  — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Yet a group of deficit hawks are worried about the ballooning deficit, and think any tax package needs to be fully offset.
  — Emily Wilkins, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
• 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
• But with the prospect of the seat sitting vacant for several months, city officials sought a caretaker for District 3 who could hit the ground running and manage the upcoming budget process, which will face tradeoffs due to a ballooning deficit.
  — Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
• One option floated by the committee would try to undercut the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, which led to a ballooning in program enrollment.
  — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 15 Mar 2025