balloon
noun
a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration.
balloonlike
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a word derived from
balloon.
Example Sentences
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The combined report gathered information on 366 sightings of UAPs, over half of which were described as drones or balloonlike entities similar to the Chinese spy balloon spotted over Montana this year.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
These balloonlike pads allow ants to defy gravity and crawl on ceilings or ultrahard surfaces like glass.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2022
It was so obvious—a small, balloonlike sac, bright red and kind of perfect-looking.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2020
Television news trucks surrounded Beth Israel Medical Center North, where they had dragged themselves after being stricken in their hotel room with rampaging fevers, headaches, extreme exhaustion and mysterious balloonlike swellings.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2013
Male frigate birds with bright red balloonlike sacs under their chins cruised the shore.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
