How to Use ballooning in a Sentence

ballooning

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Here’s how ballooning debt and a standoff with the Teamsters union led to Yellow’s downfall.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The pricey pie has seen ballooning costs and delays in the last decade with slices heading to dozens of aerospace companies across the nation.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2022
  • This led to content costs ballooning to nearly $30 billion in the last fiscal year.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 May 2023
  • But the tale of what happened to hot air ballooning in Anchorage reflects broader change in a young city.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2021
  • It’s been 15 years since the world’s elite ballooning pilots have gathered in the United States for a race with roots that stretch back more than a century.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The ballooning death toll has defied the hopes of many Americans that the less severe Omicron variant would spare the United States the pain of past waves.
    — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • In a behavior known as ballooning, spiders take flight (opens a new tab) by extending a silk thread to catch charges in the sky, sometimes traveling hundreds of kilometers with the wind.
    — quantamagazine.org, 30 Sep. 2024
  • That’s also reflected in ballooning handgun sales, since the primary purpose of those guns isn’t recreational, but self-defense.
    — Li Zhou, Vox, 4 Sep. 2024

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