Example Sentences

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The prices are all in today’s money, using the official consumer-price index as the inflater.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 14, 2025

It is leaving behind the air bag inflater business that caused all the wreckage.

From Slate • Aug. 11, 2017

At least one current Fiat Chrysler model contains a front passenger-side air bag that uses an inflater lacking a drying agent, the report found.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2016

The passenger seat was unoccupied, but hot shards from the ruptured inflater smashed the passenger-side window and embedded in the dashboard, causing a small fire, Nissan said.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2015

And—bless me, you've no inflater, or glasses—not even a wind-gauge!

From Mr. Punch's Golf Stories by Various