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balloon English

Meaning balloon meaning

What does balloon mean?
Definitions in simple English

balloon

A balloon is a light round ball filled with air that floats; often a child's toy. My balloon floated away into the sky.

balloon

If something balloons that means it grows very fast. The price of oil has ballooned.

balloon

large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck (= inflate) become inflated The sails ballooned ride in a hot-air balloon He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China

Synonyms balloon synonyms

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Balloon English » English

Hot-air Balloon Globus Aerostaticus Air-Balloon

Topics balloon topics

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Conjugation balloon conjugation

How do you conjugate balloon?

balloon · verb

Examples balloon examples

How do I use balloon in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The balloon descended slowly.
Everybody in the park looked up at the hot air balloon.
A balloon was floating in the air.
The balloon was carried away somewhere by the wind.
I rode in a hot air balloon.
Have you ever ridden in a hot air balloon?
Don't you wish to make a flight in a hot air balloon?
They sent up a balloon.
The balloon is filled with air.
The balloon floated down the street.
Our hot-air balloon rose into the sky.
He scared the hell out of me by popping a balloon right next to my ear.
Tom is inflating a balloon.
There is an advertising balloon flying above the department store.
The balloon went up in the sky.
The balloon will burst.
Tom blew up the balloon.
I am inflating my balloon.
We'll get you another balloon.
The balloon deflated quickly.
Tom filled the balloon with helium.
Tom tied the balloon to Mary's wrist.

Movie subtitles

You-you bought her a stupid balloon?
This balloon is not stupid.
It's a balloon like the one you gave little Elsie Beckmann!
Asta, is your balloon busted?
Born in a balloon?
Old Forsythe's bobbing up and down like a balloon that can't land.
Mr. Sycamore, I'm afraid we've got the powder chamber too near the balloon.
The powder chamber was too close to the balloon.
Say, there's a balloon.
My head is like a balloon.
They drop him out of a balloon. I just don't want to be around.
The balloon failed to return to the fair.
Times being what they were, I accepted the job retaining my balloon against the advent of a quick getaway.
And in that balloon, dear Dorothy you and I will return to the land of E Pluribus Unum.
Do you think I'll spend my whole life in this dry rot just so the rest of the world can ride around on balloon tires? - Sure you will.
They drop him out of a balloon.
Suddenly the wind changed and the balloon floated down into this noble city where l was instantly acclaimed Oz, the first wizard deluxe!
At the moment he's up in a balloon with two blondes.
They water balloon bombed us on our own turf, just because we won't let them on our soccer field.
My heart fills like a balloon.
I have no country. Born in a balloon?
The balloon failed to return to the fair. -It did?
Suddenly the wind changed and the balloon floated down into this noble city where I was instantly acclaimed Oz, the first wizard deluxe!
That's too bad. At the moment he's up in a balloon with two blondes.
If you had a balloon that carried a man to Mars and the pilot you picked suddenly disappeared, would you get in the balloon yourself and cast off?
A balloon?

News and current affairs

Yet another US trial balloon has been the suggestion that if all of the above fails, the Americans might suggest that the Arab-Israeli conflict be resolved through the convening of an international conference.
Following the credit-bubble burst in 2008, fiscal transfers replaced these private financial flows, causing budget deficits to balloon.
In that vein, closing down trade with China, while failing to address the saving shortfall, is like putting pressure on one end of a water balloon.
In effect, America's trade balance is like a water balloon - applying pressure on one spot would simply cause the water to slosh elsewhere.
After 30 years of massive effort, all prohibitionism has achieved is to shift areas of cultivation and drug cartels from one country to another (the so-called balloon effect).
An economy hit by a shock does not maintain its buoyancy; rather, it becomes a leaky balloon.
Back in China, the dollar peg has led to large and growing foreign-exchange reserves, which are fueling domestic inflationary pressures and causing public-sector debt to balloon.
But they may also be waiting for the first external shock to puncture the Chavez balloon before they pounce.
But the balloon that has deflated the most may be the one that Obama sent aloft in Prague in April 2009, when he made the case for rapid and serious movement toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
On disarmament, the balloon has well and truly deflated.
In this scenario the exchange rate s kept overvalued, expenditures balloon, and a deteriorating external balance is contained by more controls, particularly on the financial sector and capital account.

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