Balloon
balloon (verb) - suddenly and quickly get much larger (like a balloon being inflated with air)
a balloon payment
ballooning debt
ballooning inflation
ballooning goods trade
ballooning account balances
balloon out of control
ballooning faster than expected
make sure it doesn't balloon again
a ballooning budget
a ballooning budget deficit
ballooning costs
a ballooning surplus of
ballooning government spending
a ballooning Afro
ballooning requirements
ballooning into a full-fledged disaster
a ballooning skirt
a ballooning blouse
balloon out from
long skirt ballooning out on either side like a bat's wings
Example sentences:
* The company's debt has been ballooning alarmingly.
* Let's keep this crisis from ballooning into a full-fledged disaster.
* She went on a crash diet after ballooning to 90 kilograms.
* The ballooning budget deficit is sure to drag down the economy.
* Watch out. Disk space requirements for this software can balloon quickly.
* The budget will continue to balloon out of control unless we change course.
* "Well you know when guys get fat and their stomach sticks out like a balloon?"
* The fashion model's full-sleeved blouse ballooned out from a black tunic.
* As share prices shot up, we discovered that our account balances were ballooning faster than expected, so we are willing to take a few extra chances with our money.
* "The optimists dismiss China's ballooning inflation and swelling money supply as mere potholes on its road to the level of prosperity already enjoyed by many of its East Asian neighbours." (Source: British National Corpus)
* As the male model posed facing the fan, with his leather jacket ballooning and his white scarf whipping in the breeze, his leather boots slid sideways a bit into a contorted pose.
* Marilyn Monroe's skirt ballooned upwards as she walked over a hot air vent on the New York sidewalk. (Famous scene from a movie)
* Expectations of a kick-start for the economy from the tax cut were dashed by ballooning Government spending.
* "Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build." (Source: British National Corpus)
* He kept his eyes fixed on the crest of the hill over which she would appear freewheeling down on her bicycle, black hair streaming and her long skirt ballooning out on either side like a bat's wings. (Source: British National Corpus)
* Let's make sure the budget doesn't balloon again, like it did last year.
* She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her.
* The extra cash has fueled a ballooning goods trade between the two Chinese cities.
* Sluggish growth in Europe will exacerbate a ballooning surplus of the metal.
