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Then the blob can inflate into a finished house in 45 minutes.

Does it matter whether Taylor Swift wants me to inflate my Internet notoriety by doing a dumb thing where I lip sync to her music?

Otherwise, there's a tendency for people with small businesses to inflate the expenses of the business to match the income.

Apropos inflation, the government could try to inflate its way out of this crisis, covering the deficit by printing money.

But could this invoking of the words of the Godfather of Soul be a belated effort to inflate these flat polling numbers?

You have to add a lot of minor traffic violators and visa overstayers to inflate that figure to 94 percent.

Let man's better nature revel in the beauties of existence; they inflate his soul.

He and his good wife gave me affectionate greeting and something to inflate a certain vacuum which had become painfully clamorous.

It is only irredeemable paper—irredeemable in whole or in part,—that ever appears to inflate prices, relatively to gold.

We hurry into the heavy rubber suits—and the engineers are already dressed—and inflate at the air-pump taps.

Like the globe-fish, they can erect their spines and inflate their bodies.