How to Use ballooning in a Sentence

ballooning

noun
  • She's always wanted to go ballooning.
  • At a time of ballooning deficits, that shouldn’t be dismissed.
    — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Demand an end to bald-faced lies and ballooning of the budget deficit.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025
  • This is also the part that tends to be the most unknown and at risk for ballooning costs.
    — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 11 Mar. 2025
  • For decades, the project kept chugging along, even amid concerns about ballooning costs.
    — Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2023
  • But some inmates do not trust a system that has failed to control ballooning case counts in the past.
    — SFChronicle.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Why not just go hot-air ballooning with Richard Branson and call it a day?
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
  • The delay and ballooning budget have made the project a flashpoint.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
  • France’s ballooning debt and a new budget will top Barnier’s agenda.
    — Barbara Surk, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Usually, with a high-rise and a wide-to-downright-ballooning leg.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 July 2022
  • Joro spiders can parachute to travel north but the ballooning process has less of a chance for survival.
    — Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 5 June 2024
  • Then a lungful of contracting air, followed by a ballooning rush of sound.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • An aneurysm is a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel in your brain that develops due to a weakness in the artery wall.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 22 Mar. 2019
  • On the back end, that meant adding cloud computing space to handle the ballooning numbers and staff on the help desk.
    — USA Today, 7 Apr. 2021
  • And the relief does nothing to address the ballooning cost of college.
    — Bianca VÁzquez Toness, Chron, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Yet a group of deficit hawks are worried about the ballooning deficit, and think any tax package needs to be fully offset.
    — Emily Wilkins, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Then March, then April, then May, then June, the debt ballooning.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The most visible sign of this is the country’s ballooning budget deficit.
    — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The plan will put a plug on the ballooning legal fees racked up by the bankruptcy proceedings.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • This is the world’s premier ballooning event with over 500 balloons.
    — Jeff and Patti Kinzbach, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In the eyes of many locals, his investments bring to the fore the ballooning cost of real estate in the area.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • But by the late 2000s, the Roys were saddled with ballooning debt.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
  • That will help take some of the air out the the ballooning economy that has, in part, sent inflation surging.
    — Cnn Business, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • And, with a crisis of ballooning budgets in the film industry, this change couldn’t come at a better time.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 26 June 2026
  • Just a year ago most could not have cared less about the ballooning power of tech over so many aspects of American life.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 5 June 2019
  • This led to content costs ballooning to nearly $30 billion in the last fiscal year.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 May 2023
  • This year marks 41 years of ballooning in Plano and Collin County.
    — Lea Lane, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Maybe, but my mind kept hot-air-ballooning away to my fellow-cultists, who were facing their own spiritual co-op boards.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
  • How about 11 more points, despite limping and hopping around to keep the pressure off his ballooning foot?
    — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2020
  • And over the years, tractor-trailers and farm equipment have been supersized, ballooning in length, breadth and weight.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020

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