Example Sentences

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Then he’d overinflate them to stretch the ball out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

For example, in a lab study, participants wearing a helmet were more likely than those in a baseball cap to overinflate an animated balloon.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2021

He is passionate about the music, but he doesn’t let his passion overinflate his prose, and he seems to know everything about everyone who was part of the Southern music world.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015

The two shared thoughts and jokes on how to overinflate the balls, and they had some choice words for Brady.

From Washington Times • May 6, 2015

What those people say and do can bolster, indeed overinflate, a witness’s level of certainty in their identification.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2012