inflating
- present participle of inflate.
Example Sentences
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Appeared in the October 25, 2025, print edition as 'Why Bubbles Can Keep Inflating in Plain Sight'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025
Inflating the air chamber forces the fins to bend -- similar to the down stroke when a manta flaps its fins.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024
Inflating the value of the property for lenders induces them to make loans they might not otherwise have made and to charge less in interest rates, on the theory that they were taking less risk.
From Slate • Sep. 21, 2022
Inflating the cuff cuts off blood flow, and the device measures the pressure blood is putting on vessel walls when blood starts flowing again as the compression is released.
From The Verge • Sep. 16, 2021
Inflating his chest, Jimmie sat back in his chair and puffed more vigorously at his cigar.
From Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst by Broadhurst, George Howells
