How to Use inflated in a Sentence

inflated

adjective

• She objects to the inflated salaries that many professional athletes now receive.
• The agreement, Harker says, was that the rent would drop from that inflated rate at the end of the lease in 2022.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2021
• In this case, the spread is too inflated in favor of the favorite.
  — Christopher Smith, al, 1 Nov. 2021
• The three dropped from an unknown height and were dragged through the water by the inflated parasail.
  — Tina Burnside and Melissa Alonso, CNN, 1 June 2022
• On top of that, farmers had to deal with inflated feed and fuel costs.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 15 May 2023
• Big tech stocks aren't the only things with inflated prices.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 5 June 2022
• 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
• The chicken was unable to stay inflated in winds over 20 mph.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
• The best of them are listed at inflated prices on the resale market.
  — Alice Cary, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
• An under-inflated tire will run hot and can fail at high speed.
  — Ray Magliozzi, Arkansas Online, 15 May 2021
• Gone are the days when cyclists needed just a helmet (maybe) and two inflated wheels to go for a ride.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2022
• 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
• The post stated that the poster wasn’t going to pay the inflated prices for a used machine like the ones that were advertised.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2022
• 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
• With the machine, the team found that the inflated cells were less dense than the surrounding seawater.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Oct. 2024
• At over $5,000 a bottle, out of reach for even the most inflated expense accounts.
  — Alok Sama, Fortune Asia, 17 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The inflated cost for some spare parts means others can’t be bought, and the readiness of the plane to fly missions could be affected.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
• 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
• So this was his first chance to make some serious money, at least in the inflated world of baseball.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 10 Apr. 2022
• Srinivasan says an inflated sense of self can get in the way of putting the good of the organization ahead of their own glory.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• The brief discount comes as families deal with inflated prices at the grocery store, the gas pump and elsewhere.
  — Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2022
• The pattern suggests that the chips go on sale, promptly sell out, and third parties turn around to resell the CPU at inflated prices.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 3 May 2021
• 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
• Everyone wants in on the action - that is, the inflated prices investors are willing to pay for stocks.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Raytheon just agreed last week to pay a mind-boggling $950 million in criminal and civil charges to the U.S. government for a cluster of offenses ranging from inflated prices for missiles, to bribes for sales to Qatar.
  — Charles Tiefer, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024