How To Use Loon 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
On his way out, he met Baldwin dressed soberly in a black frock coat and pantaloons.
McGregor is saddled with a tiresome everyman role, but Spacey, Clooney, and especially Bridges make some of their scenes work better than they should. Your mind won’t be blown watching “The Men Who Stare at Goats” » Scene-Stealers

All through the service balloons ascended, but when it was over 1/3 of the balloons were unreleased.
The car, a dark four-door saloon, drove off, leaving him behind.
I look up, and stuck on any available space on the lighting grid are giant nets filled with balloons.
The first, innocuous shower stroked the lake's surface but, when the wind came up, the loons began to call madly.
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.
It is de rigueur to ridicule them - of course they are laughable loons!
Maybe the cowboy in us prefers the saloon tart to the civilizing schoolmarm.
Weather balloons measure pressure, temperature, humidity and air speed. Times, Sunday Times
April 2, 2010 at 10:18 am afinkso teh hooman haz onlee hizseff tew blaim fer leevin teh ‘baloonz’ wifin reech uv poyntee teef an clawz! Iz THIS wai u were so mad - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Good fishing for sportsmen and women also means good fortune for those who must feed their families almost entirely by fishing - loons, ospreys, bald eagles and cormorants.
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.
And then you've got the work in the luxury saloon sector, where people are phoning out for still bigger pieces of aluminium and ordering up even larger chunks of birchwood, in accordance with a mission to go faster, fatter.
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
Cats were slumbering noisily beneath the TV set and a smallish party of utter strangers were drinking Harp in the saloon lounge. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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 music is the best thing about the film, which includes spirituals, work songs, a lullaby, and a great sequence in a saloon with honky-tonk jazz.
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.
The bouncer very roughly bounced him out of the saloon.
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 the 1890s, women some women found they could cast off their impractical and uncomfortable clothing in favour of pantaloons.
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.
In the working-class saloons that lined the roughest sections of late nineteenth-century Chicago, refusing a man's treat violated rules of plebeian sociability and thus frequently triggered brawls.
As we came level with the silver saloon, I was absolutely amazed to see the driver holding a camcorder to his face.
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
Out of the saloon he went and met Sylvester West the druggist stumbling along in the kind of heavy overshoes called arctics.
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
Most valued are the doubloons, aluminum coins about the size of a silver dollar with the krewe's emblem.
Just this wonderful fantasy of grabbing on to toy balloons and floating into open space. Times, Sunday Times
Rockwell, too, is no slouch in the cool stakes, having already teamed up with George Clooney for crime capers, Welcome to Collinwood and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
Balloon blind A shade or blind with deep inverted pleats which create a billowing balloon-like effect.
Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta. Pretty Woman
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.
So I sat with my books unread and listened to the loony for an hour or so.
the balloons look like lil sperm guys on the "schmear" cake. Recycled Wrecks
Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta. Archive 2008-03-01
Set in 1912 New York, The Iceman Cometh spotlights the failed lives, empty hopes, and perpetual pipedreams of the stewbums, anarchists, and hookers of Harry Hope's seedy saloon.
They exited the saloon after paying the barkeep and began to walk the streets until they received a call from Chidori reminding her to pick up the wire they needed for the guns.
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.
This is a versatile four-door saloon that can out accelerate supercars costing almost ten times as much.
'Tut, tut, Buonesperado,' laughed he, 'you shall forget that Tyburn is not a fable if you care to have doubloons reminted at the Queen's mint. Michel and Angele — Volume 3
An air balloon will monitor the convoys. Times, Sunday Times
I can't pretend that they will suit everyone (particularly the loonier ones). Times, Sunday Times
-- Tis a gift to be feeble tis a gift to be asleep, tis a gift tocow-touw to the fascistcreep, andif we find ourselves in a FEMA camp tonight, we will know that the loonies and kooks were right. OpEdNews - Diary: The Purpose and Practice of Sarcasm
The entrance to the store was bedecked in hundreds of green and yellow balloons, and the store itself is just fabulous.
The Audi saloon was parked at the side of the road when it was hit by the Toyota.
The book includes a bag of balloons, a hand pump and easy-to-follow instructions.
In English (following Spanish) a doubloon was a coin worth two pesetas -- the pirates '` piece of eight,' because the peseta was equivalent to four reals. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3
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
The loonie is a seven-gram, 11-sided disk - technically a hendecagon - 26.5 millimetres in diameter and 1.75 millimetres thick.
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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.
On the ground floor is a saloon bar with a food servery, kitchen and customer toilets.
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.
Below we report the geographic distribution of long-tailed ducks, eiders, scoters, glaucous gulls, and Pacific loons with respect to month and ice cover.
Work quickly or keep the cutting material in a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and sealed.
There were nether garments too, in the form of floppy pantaloons, leotards, tight briefs, G-strings and loin-cloths, as well as kilts long and short, flowing and crinolined, skirts full and hobbled. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
There are now companies dedicated to their organisation, offering activities from hot - air ballooning to health spas, paintballing to makeovers.
The beau monde even dictates style to the overfed Prince of Wales, ridiculous in his pantaloons, and to soignée duchesses, who trade in their silks and satins for cotton, the ‘poor stuff’ of the French Revolution.
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"
At home there was always a clean shirt and a pair of cottonade pantaloons waiting for him, and nothing but a "Well, Jim!" by way of reproof. The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys
If a babymoon is the holiday equivalent of the last-chance saloon, it makes sense to go for broke. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, his foot tapped, his eyes closed tight, and his thick cheeks ballooned with air to refill the bladder.
Can this city survive without its traditional battalions of colorful characters swaggering through saloons and newspaper columns?
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
In this rare moment, Tessa wonders whether she and the other Bradys are the loonier ones. Amaryllis in Blueberry
Victoria would be called shanties -- huts built of wood and canvas -- some of the larger of them being labelled "Saloon," "Eating-house, A Boy's Voyage Round the World
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
Widow Precious had plenty of sharp sense to tell her that her children were by no means “pretty dears” to anybody but herself, and to herself only when in a very soft state of mind; at other times they were but three gew-mouthed lasses, and two looby loons with teeth enough for crunching up the dripping-pan. Mary Anerley
This kind of metafictional goofing around was a common convention of the Looney Tunes cartoons, which often referred implicitly or explicitly to the offscreen animator, with characters looking upward in this way to get the attention of the artists a device most famously used in Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck a few years earlier. The Girl Can't Help It
I arrived at the field by 6.15 a.m. to behold the magnificent sight of the massive balloon half inflated.
He discovers that he himself has become so well adapted to the Inuit way of life that he is no longer a "Kabloona" and has become one of them.
'Once middle age appears even faintly on the horizon, fashion suddenly gets all unhand-me-greybeard-loon' Alexis Petridis: A toast to Toast
She must have weighed under a hundred pounds and this man like a bloated balloon ready to pop needed to torture her?
Martin Cloonan's introductory essay asks us to consider seriously the question of definition.
The meter-square bag was found leaking its foul contents outside the office of legislator Leung Yiu-chung in an industrial area of Kowloon.
If you George Soros Al-Qaeda loving loons were in charge I would fear frore my nation and party. Think Progress » Anti-Muslim Congressman Has ‘No Intention Of Apologizing’
These rare one piece camiknickers have lace on the pantaloon style pantalets.
In recent years, a narrative has emerged of elections being contests between the educated and the knuckledraggers, the 'post-fact' loons. The Sun
Last night was spent with good friends at McSorley's Old Ale House, memorialized by Joseph Mitchell in his story McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, a work I had read several times without realizing the actual place was so close.
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.
On the ground floor is a saloon bar with a food servery, kitchen and customer toilets.
So, the bikers party at the River Bottom Saloon and camp in trucks and tents behind it.
Tell the students to blow up the balloon and then tape the straw to the balloon.
The following story is based upon the Bible. It was rewritten by Hendrik Willem Van Loon.
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.
It's sleeker but too anonymous, but the curvy rear is sportier than the saloon. The Sun
The balloon soared up on a gust of wind.
Sporty hatchbacks, coupes and saloons would be tearfully exchanged for the bigger, sensible and practical but dull to drive estates.
My senses were all confused as within my sight was a king's ransom - Spanish gold doubloons and shining silver reals, gold pieces of eight, old English milled gold guineas, crowns, minted silver shillings.
It's not really about flying balloons. Times, Sunday Times
I was right there with the loonies, making the cocoa, talking to the emptiness. GO!
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.
Please return the completed form to the Administrator - HSBC Life Limited - PO Box 73770 Kowloon Central Post Office.
That leisurely pace is what makes a balloon ride such a satisfying experience.
Medicine Lodge, Kansas, small as it was, contained seven saloons for the comfort of local drinkers.
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.
As far as many people are concerned your brand of loony left wing tribal politics is just as corrosive and harmful as the EDL's baboonery. The Guardian World News
The nipped waistlines of men's tight pantaloons and the gauzy fabrics of women's empire dresses flattered youthful figures, and in fact, copied the kinds of clothing worn by young children.
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.
From 6000 to 7000 feet, plants of the temperate regions blend with the tropical; such as rhododendron, oak, ivy, geranium, berberry, clematis, and shrubby _Vaccinia, _ which all made their appearance at Loongtoong, another Bhoteea village. Himalayan Journals — Complete
Has a look at present's Looney, was similarly also injured, but he again why?
Or they can take a hot air balloon and enjoy the tranquillity of the national parks from the skies. The Sun
All the eye can see are evergreens, a placid body of water and the occasional loon.
The upper deck houses a large saloon and another bar. Times, Sunday Times
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.
The dollar coin is called a loonie, because there's a picture of a loon (the bird) on one side. It's the little things
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
A wooden door now closes off the forecabin from the saloon.
Silence falls as he limps up the the bar - no sound anywhere in the saloon except for the jingle of his gunbelt. Making Light: Open thread 137
To tie together a book that covers the colonial-era tavern, the frontier barrelhouse, the high-toned New York City saloon, the German beer-garden, the speakeasy, the cocktail lounge, the gay bar and even the contemporary neo-speakeasy, a writer needs a grand theme. The All-American Place
The mayor finally asked the governor for assistance, whereupon eight companies were sent in and the saloons ordered closed.
In partial shade, use balloon flowers as accent plants placed among foxgloves, hostas, or lamb's ears.
Indeed, as the years go by the originals of subpoenaed smoking pistols themselves will slowly disappear, to the point where those claiming they ever existed can be safely tagged as crazed, deluded loons.
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
Then again, the man who turned looning into a full-time career generally looks quite vacant.
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.
By 1910, San Francisco’s red-light district, known as the Barbary Coast, contained more than 300 concert saloons within a six-block radius, and the South Side of Chicago had more than 285. A Renegade History of the United States
It will be years before I will understand the significance of these little balloons.
The Cypriot female costume was an outer garment, the chemise, and the distinctive long pantaloons caught around the ankle.
On the other hand, I just don't know why people are getting their pantaloons in a twist over any gambling or racing issues, or indeed any matter - other than the end of the world as we know it.
Not to be outdone, Adams takes over drumming duties, grinning like a loon.
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.
‘Yes, ma'am,’ said our director, grinning like a loon.
January 28th, 2009 at 1: 26 pm the danger the northern menace poses to the US has lessened now that the looney is back down to 83 cents. Matthew Yglesias » My Long-Awaited Revenge
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.
I headed out for the backyard where I proceeded to dig about a zillion holes in the ground searching for gold doubloons.
We could see at every house a tenter, and on almost every tenter a piece of cloth or kersie or shalloon .... The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners
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
They dubbed the cavalrymen “Grub scout,” “Kitchen ranger,” “Bomb Proof,” “Buttermilk spies,” and “Loonies.” Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
The story ends at a funeral, hovered over by a surreal balloon, from which hangs a fancied female acrobat.
It was My Lady -- formerly My Lady -- clad in embroidered short Spanish jacket, tightish velvet pantaloons, booted to the knees, pulled down upon her yellow hair a black soft hat, and hanging from the just-revealed belt around her slender waist, a revolver trifle. Desert Dust
Hot air balloon safaris offer high-flying adventures that are unlikely to disturb the native animals.
'I haven't got time to sit listening to loonies ,' she said. MR STARLIGHT
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.
It is expected to sell well in Ireland, where, unusually in Europe, saloons outsell hatchbacks in the small car segment.

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