How To Use Balloon In A Sentence

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The country's capital stock ballooned to reach a level that the economy could not support.
Veracruz City's Plaza de Armas or zócalo is alive with smiling people and food, chotchke and balloon vendors. There's a lot to see and do in Veracruz, Mexico
All through the service balloons ascended, but when it was over 1/3 of the balloons were unreleased.
I look up, and stuck on any available space on the lighting grid are giant nets filled with balloons.

The ballooning cost to taxpayers of retirement benefits for public sector employees has forced the Conservatives to promise action. Times, Sunday Times
The air in the balloon expands when heated.
Weather balloons measure pressure, temperature, humidity and air speed. Times, Sunday Times
Fireworks and the nightglow created by tethered balloons happen after sunset. Times, Sunday Times
Then members of the mandirs or businesses sponsoring the floats personalized them with balloons and garlands.
She discussed the Afghan War, huge Wall Street profits and media coverage of the Balloon Boy hoa ... Huff TV: Arianna Discusses Afghan War And Huge Wall Street Profits On CNN
A balloon constructed of a tough polyester film called Mylar will deliver her to the edge of space.
Helium balloons embossed with the words "great car for little money" promoted Volkswagen's newest four-seater model, Up!. Auto Makers Focus on Bright Side in Frankfurt
The budget deficit has ballooned to $25 billion.
The leak forced a controlled descent of the giant balloon about 250 kilometres to the west of the launch site.
The original version is censored, using goofy Batman inspired cartoon balloon words to block out some excessively gory details.
When the balloon is held up to a wall, the negative charge causes the electrons in the wall to move away from the area.
The ball ballooned forward and Wells took the return catch.
If crows have become unwelcome guests, Martens recommends scare tactics, such as Mylar tape, pie tins, scary eye balloons, scarecrows, and auditory alarms.
Mr Fournier will spend around three hours ascending in an enclosed lightweight gondola before deflating the balloon and parachuting back to earth in six minutes and 25 seconds.
This video didn't really teach me how "inducement and entrainment" power the bladeless Air Multiplier fans, but I learned that these things can definitely induce a balloon to be awesome. Daily Dispatch: Digital revolution causing car culture decline; Criminals rent botnets at bargain rates
And shortly after that, it was as though someone took a - a stickpin and - and then hit a balloon. CNN Transcript May 3, 2009
The winch man was running out the cable, allowing the barrage balloon to rise.
I finned madly for the surface, and was told off very severely for making an ascent like a pricked balloon.
Latex balloons, and toys or games that contain a latex balloon, must carry a warning that children younger than 8 can choke or suffocate on uninflated or broken balloons and that adult supervision is required Not just the newest toys hold risks for kids
In addition to mechanical thrombolysis, the vessel may be opened with a balloon (angioplasty). Thrombolysis
Balloons, like airships, get their lift from a structure containing a gas that is less dense than the air surrounding the balloon.
In the same decade he also became a passionate balloonist, and dreamed of directed flight by heavier-than-air vehicles. The Times Literary Supplement
LONDON — Coast guards are hunting for a pair of missing American balloonists last detected piloting their craft over the Adriatic Sea in rough weather, officials said Wednesday. Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer Davis Missing In European Balloon Race
To-day I became strongly impressed with the idea, that the balloon was now actually running up the line of apsides to the point of perigee -- in other words, holding the direct course which would bring it immediately to the moon in that part of its orbit the nearest to the earth. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
Madison was assigned to investigate a balloon accident.
We don't want you being left behind in Mbarara if the balloon goes up.
I played like a crazed dog chasing a balloon on wet lino. The Sun
It is also beneficial to take a close look at ballooning household assets and liabilities.
The toy is made of a balloon in a cloth sack that can be hit without busting.
The town has another curiosity - the farm shop, which has ballooned into Britain's poshest supermarket, complete with wicker trugs instead of shopping trolleys and quails' eggs by the dozen.
You have the balloon effect for shifting coca production, what I call the cockroach effect for how the cartels jump from one region to the next, and then there's the whack-a-mole policy to try to deal with all of it," says Bruce Bagley, a political scientist at the University of Miami and an expert on the global drug trade. Cocaine: The New Front Lines
Just this wonderful fantasy of grabbing on to toy balloons and floating into open space. Times, Sunday Times
Balloon blind A shade or blind with deep inverted pleats which create a billowing balloon-like effect.
Yet all the guys around the bat were convinced, because of the way the ball ballooned rather than bounced up, that it had hit Lamby's boot.
The ironic tone is a visual effect produced by encapsulating quoted matter in the balloons - a cartoonish medium that gives us permission to laugh again.
the balloons look like lil sperm guys on the "schmear" cake. Recycled Wrecks
Episode one: lifting a house with a giant cluster of helium balloons. Times, Sunday Times
After the balloon bellied out into full form, its five passengers climbed into the basket.
An air balloon will monitor the convoys. Times, Sunday Times
The entrance to the store was bedecked in hundreds of green and yellow balloons, and the store itself is just fabulous.
The book includes a bag of balloons, a hand pump and easy-to-follow instructions.
One also prohibited the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons.
The balloon rotated gently in the evening breeze, presenting its serial number to him.
Like I have said I have a letter from major marcels son who saw the wreckage and in this letter he says "the wreckage was nothing like a weather balloon" it was as thin as tin foil yet you could not bend it or break it, let alone eve scratch its surface! The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 4
He filled his writings with discussions of plows, air pumps, compasses, canal locks, balloons and steam power.
Children and the young at heart had a ball with a great range of fun-filled events including face painters, clowns, balloon modellers and live musicians lined-up to keep them enthralled.
Better-engineered spigots prevent air from entering the bag when you fill your glass - the bag deflates like a balloon - so the wine stays fresh.
With festive spot prizes, crackers and balloons, it was truly a great start to the Christmas par-tying season.
Inflate the scare index by blowing up balloons and placing a glowstick inside. The Sun
Another group has published preliminary findings on alkaline secretion in a balloon occluded segment of human oesophagus.
The balloon rose gently into the air.
Decorate your home inexpensively with loads of balloons and streamers.
Those who attended were greeted with a splendid display of colour with helium balloons, banners and flags festooning the walls of the Glenside.
Who was the first man to make an ascent in a balloon?
As the air filled the sac, the balloon took on an impossibly long shape.
It's Valentine's season, which means that everywhere you look there are heart-shaped balloons, pink greeting cards and candy boxes filled with chocolate.
Work quickly or keep the cutting material in a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and sealed.
There are now companies dedicated to their organisation, offering activities from hot - air ballooning to health spas, paintballing to makeovers.
These won't be the first manned balloon flights into the stratosphere, though. Times, Sunday Times
Richard Abruzzo and Carol Rymer Davis were participating in the 54th Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race, an annual race in which teams of balloonists try to see who can fly the farthest from a set point on a maximum of about 1,000 cubic meters (35,300 cubic feet) of gas. Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer Davis Missing In European Balloon Race
Long also assumed that, like sunlight, most cosmic rays were reflected by the Earth's atmosphere, and that as one rose higher above the Earth, the energy from cosmic rays would grow stronger until they would heat Pat Marsh's balloon hundreds of degrees when it rose above the stratopause. Diagnosing "Cosmic Fever"
Meanwhile, his foot tapped, his eyes closed tight, and his thick cheeks ballooned with air to refill the bladder.
In London, the use of the Tube has ballooned.
The band can be tightened or loosened by injecting or removing fluid from a balloon on its inside surface. Times, Sunday Times
I sail up the hill and along Hyde Hill Lane as if I were a balloon.
And they have hammered at the ballooning US national debt and what they described as runaway government spending, vowing to cut taxes and rein in Washington. Canada.com Top Stories
I arrived at the field by 6.15 a.m. to behold the magnificent sight of the massive balloon half inflated.
She must have weighed under a hundred pounds and this man like a bloated balloon ready to pop needed to torture her?
On the other hand, some market pros pooh-pooh any October fears, noting that the market is on a roll, what with the Dow -- largely reflecting expectations of a zippier economy -- having ballooned more than 700 points since late July. Dan Dorfman: More Than Those Autumn Leaves Could Fall
For instance, Youngna Park's "Balloons Midtown, Manhattan" is a row of balloons seen against a plate-glass window outside of which some high-rise office and apartment buildings are visible, but the sun is shining so intensely through the window that it bleaches the color from the balloons. Shadows and Light Somewhere in Time
Despite a number of setbacks, they persevered in their attempts to fly around the world in a balloon.
Tell the students to blow up the balloon and then tape the straw to the balloon.
The winch man was running out the cable, allowing the barrage balloon to rise.
People will be asked to pay £1 to guess the furthest distance a balloon will travel over three weeks following the release.
The balloon soared up on a gust of wind.
It's not really about flying balloons. Times, Sunday Times
It was a cosy atmosphere inside Coffee Pot, which was decked up with balloons, festoons and buntings, besides a decorated Christmas tree and crib set.
New York Medicaid costs have ballooned by $13 billion since Albany passed a health-care ‘reform’ act four years ago, supposedly to restrain spending.
That leisurely pace is what makes a balloon ride such a satisfying experience.
Few neighborhood rituals in Manhattan are more beguiling than to be present as roustabouts pump helium into the balloons that give such a childlike lift to the Macy's parade.
The sense of adventure felt by the pioneers of flight still remains with those who carry on the tradition of ballooning today.
The balloon went pop.
The millionaire adventurer was the first person to circle the globe solo in a hot-air balloon.
The domestic debt has ballooned to $10 trillion from $7 trillion as of April this year as the government continues to borrow from local banks to finance its budget deficit.
Or they can take a hot air balloon and enjoy the tranquillity of the national parks from the skies. The Sun
As if one were a balloonist high in the air, imperilled by the wind currents, at times becalmed, perplexed. The Times Literary Supplement
The budget deficit has ballooned to $25 billion.
Thermal balloon therapy is contraindicated in patients with a submucosal myoma or bicornate or septate uterus.
In the same decade he also became a passionate balloonist, and dreamed of directed flight by heavier-than-air vehicles. The Times Literary Supplement
In partial shade, use balloon flowers as accent plants placed among foxgloves, hostas, or lamb's ears.
When he sent weather balloons high into the atmosphere he was surprised to find them blown away by powerful high-altitude winds sweeping eastwards. Times, Sunday Times
His kick ballooned into the air on the edge of the box from where Howey headed it back, leaving Nash to make a diving save.
We tied balloons and streamers to the ceiling ready for the party.
My joke about the alcoholic went down like a lead balloon.
With its overbearingly charismatic, slo-mo vocal, chomping techno stabs and Roland 303 squiggles twisted into tight new party balloon shapes, this is raw, unbridled fare from a label that's kept up the dark, crunching, nasty end of the dancefloor spectrum for over two decades. This week's new singles
The carving abounded in motifs from nature including swallows, hydrangeas, azaleas, geraniums, lilies, palmyras, and balloon vines.
It will be years before I will understand the significance of these little balloons.
Street lamp light crouchs posse , resemble brushy balloon, wave in the sky in grey indigo color.
Balloon Lumpfish attach themselves to balloons at the Epson Shinagawa Aqua Stadium in Tokyo.
At eight, two years after the birth of his half-sister, his mother had ballooned into a blimp.
Although visual signaling - wigwag, sun-powered heliograph, and observation balloons - remained important to the U.S. military, the Spanish-American War found commercial and military telegraph enjoying extensive use.
The ascensional force of the new balloon was then about three thousand pounds, and, in adding together the weight of the apparatus, of the passengers, of the stock of water, of the car and its accessories, and putting aboard fifty gallons of water, and one hundred pounds of fresh meat, the doctor got a total weight of twenty-eight hundred and thirty pounds. Five Weeks in a Balloon
Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage.
After all, balloons defy gravity and bob around in the air, just like windswept hair. The Sun
One polymer that is widely used for extruded balloon catheters is polyamide (nylon).
The process of filling the balloons with saline solution each week has been more painful than expected. Times, Sunday Times
The story ends at a funeral, hovered over by a surreal balloon, from which hangs a fancied female acrobat.
Hot air balloon safaris offer high-flying adventures that are unlikely to disturb the native animals.
The balloon went up last Friday when the scandal became public.
Auguste Piccard conceived the bathyscaphe in the 1930s but became distracted by the allure of high-altitude ballooning.
Children and the young at heart had a ball with a great range of fun-filled events including face painters, clowns, balloon modellers and live musicians lined-up to keep them enthralled.
Percent weight reduction correlated significantly with improvement in NAS and participants who achieved the study weight loss goal (/= 7%), compared with those who lost less than 7%, had significant improvements in steatosis, lobular inflammation, ballooning injury and NAS. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Weight Loss Reduces Liver Fat
Wind measurements were performed every 4 h by tracking the ascent of a pilot balloon by radar.
A thousand balloons were released to mark the event.
That balloon will burst if you blow it up any more.
Ingredients: Rice, fernbrake, roots of balloon flower, bean sprout, beef, red pepper paste, sesame oil.
Other free items being handed out will include baby bibs warning of the health effects smoking has on babies, balloons, car air fresheners and other colourful items to attract the attention of smokers.
The inner ear and the semicircular canal and utricle balance function main balloon.
However, only trace amounts of tetrodotoxin have been found in balloonfish, mainly concentrated in the ovaries.
There will also be stalls, sideshows, fairground rides, new and vintage car shows and helicopter and balloon trips, and the Cornish Pavilion will showcase products from the county.
If only the same could be said for the so-called sopaipillas, which turn out to be triangular, cinnamon-sugared cake doughnuts - very average ones - instead of flaky balloons of fried dough.
I wanted to drift like an unfettered balloon into the future.
The balloon was distended because of filling of hydrogen.
I mentally made myself a reminder to desensitize her to balloons.
The young-at-heart are sure to enjoy the bouncy castle in Brindleyplace plus the face painting, inflatable sumo wrestling and balloon modelling.
They arrived in caravans that popped open to reveal the baseball throw, the ringtoss, the balloon darts. The Tenth Circle
After maximal inflation, the balloon can immediately be deflated because the mesh opposes elastic recoil.
Watch out for the Sea-Safari, high-speed boat trips around the bay, a hovercraft, and even a hot-air balloon!
He set his sights on crossing the Pacific by balloon.
Democratization there is in its very, very early stages, and could pop like a balloon.
He flew into a severe storm, his balloon was wrecked, and he plummeted seaward from the sky.
The balloon swelled out with gas.
Our subconscious fear of spiders is in a balloon, which floats gently away. Times, Sunday Times
He flew into a severe storm, his balloon was wrecked, and he plummeted seaward from the sky.
Colour the remaining royal icing brown and pipe with a medium writing nozzle attachment ropes between the large basket and the balloon.
Yesterday, they found themselves delayed by a hot-air balloon. Times, Sunday Times
The shots of all the balloons in motion is excellent. New 'Up' Trailer
There have been calls to ban helium balloons, thanks to the scarcity of the gas which keeps them airborne
The balloonfish is usually a shy little fellow, who retreats to a safe hole in the reef to peak out warily.
“Huzza!” roared Joe, as the balloon — thanks to its ascensional force — shot up higher into the sky, with increased rapidity. Five Weeks in a Balloon
I am now ready to go - upon my opening my pack of balloons and inflating one, a knot is tied in the end to keep it inflated.
And as well as the skiing, there is curling, skating, luge, sleigh rides and even hot-air ballooning.
Balloons suspend easily in the air.
Usually, the drift distance increases with the rising of the sounding balloon.
On the basis of the data acquired by sounding balloon, the influence of the atmospheric model on the calculation of atmospheric refraction was discussed.
DIOR balloon new option for "untreatable" and high-risk PCI patients WN.com - Articles related to H1N1 drugs made available: DMO
Lopsided and vulnerable, he tried to climb the barrage and get to the second balloon.
The move will anger ministers, who are attempting to limit the ballooning cost to taxpayers of student loans. Times, Sunday Times
The closest I’ve been to a hot air balloon is I saw a buttload from a distance as I left my hotel room. Gentle reader, and the rest of you sinners: « Dating Jesus
During Cowboy Mounted Shooting, cowboys and cowgirls galloping horses shoot balloons with blanks.
Boys noisily demand balloons from him, which they then watch fly into the gunmetal Glasgow sky bearing the slogan ‘Say yes to progress’.
Development of infundibular stenosis following percutaneous balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty can cancel the effects of the valvuloplasty.
The pilot managed to circle the balloon for some time.
Pension obligations were ballooning, while management clung to a top-heavy bureaucracy and its sprawling mills gobbled up cash for repairs.
In an attempt to find dry land they shot off threads of silk into the wind and glided through the air, a phenomenon called ballooning. Times, Sunday Times
He, however, not having observed the anthelion at the moment when her image appeared in it, had not been especially surprised by a phenomenon which he had already seen several times and observed under better conditions from the parachute of a balloon, and having taken no particular notice of it, had nothing to say about it. Part II, Chapter II of "Uranie"
What it is: One of a family of marine or estuarine fish known as Tetraodontidae whichincludesmany familiar species variously called puffers, puffer fish, balloonfish, blowfish, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish and toadfish. The Best Stuff on Earth?!
And we're not talking a balloon and a penny chew.
Why did one balloon go farther or faster than another?
The gaily coloured banners and balloons decorating the streets give the impression of an impromptu homecoming party.
Aubrey sipped his brandy, nursing the balloon in both hands and studying Langford openly.
California's collapsing economy has caused the budget deficit to balloon. Times, Sunday Times
Readers may not even notice some of the more radical elements like word balloons that get cut off by the panel borders.
I could never look as beautiful as Sinjun did in the yellow gown with its balloon skirt and lace trimmings.
The fans let thousands of balloons go at the same time and it was an enchanting sea of colour. The Sun
Do they make balloons and party bags for dogs now, do you know? Times, Sunday Times
A volunteer from Project Open Hand was standing in their doorway holding a large box decorated with streamers and balloons.
Last August, Fossett set a solo balloonist duration record, flying for 12 days, 12 hours and 57 minutes before ditching on a cattle ranch in Brazil.
Guests were entertained by superhero characters, a balloon artist and face painter. The Sun
Weather balloons are a vital part of weather forecasting. Times, Sunday Times
This rate of temperature decrease, the environmental lapse rate, must be measured to be known; this is done routinely by balloons carrying instruments called radiosondes.
At this moment the ascensional force of the balloon increased prodigiously, and Ferguson, Kennedy, and Joe, waved a last good-by to their friends. Five Weeks in a Balloon
The balloon deflated over the wires resulting in a short circuit to the electricity supply.
Unconventional sports, such as hang-gliding and hot-air ballooning, also continue to attract large numbers of students.
Besides, to shoot a mere amateur in Chouannerie would be as absurd as to fire on a balloon when a pinprick would disinflate it. The Chouans
Balloons and 55 white pigeons were launched by radio stations all over the country on the eve of last Friday's concert.
As flight director, Mr Noble, who attended Burnley Grammar School and took up ballooning in 1974, was to mastermind the ascent and ensure the pilots return safely to earth.
It split down the middle to reveal a light lavender petticoat and the sleeves ballooned out, at the top, and cascaded down, past her hands, ending in a waterfall of silky material.
I dreamed of someday flying in a Spad, firing tracers from my machine guns at German barrage balloons or zeppelins.
In an era of sharply higher inflation and sluggish wages, those price increases will go down like a lead balloon. Times, Sunday Times
On the one hand, ballooning Credit and a glut of liquidity creation were a boon inspiring astonishing asset and earnings growth.
The number of new properties on the market surged in February but with buyers "cagey", the number of unsold houses across the country ballooned, the real estate industry says. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
The place was well decorated, with balloons and streamers hanging everywhere.
Outdoor sports are not only rock climbing or trekking but also include paragliding, hot-air ballooning and parasailing.
She wore a full-skirted blue silk dress with balloon sleeves over a spring green loose fitting chemise.
Along with the thin tinsel there were twisted red and green crepe paper streamers that hung in loops from the corners of the room, and balloons too. Foiled
Coloured cut outs of red hearts, and heart-shaped balloons, decorated the walls and roof in the dimly lit ballroom.
How many times have I seen the kitten looking at the goldfish in the brandy balloon, or the kitten hanging from a tree branch?
But there are two ways of blowing up a balloon.
To add the holiday atmosphere, balloons were placed on each table.
Helicopters do not fly anything like as high and balloons do not manoeuvre. Times, Sunday Times
The inflation process is also well-illustrated, ‘The balloon is composed of silk, varnished with the liquid gum caoutchouc.’
Use balloon ripstop on a 110-degree narrow Delta steerable kite, and you will soon discover why the spinnaker nylon is best.
A 78- year-old curmudgeon, he enjoyed his modest life as a balloon seller because he shared it with his adventurous wife Ellie.

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