How to Use inflated in a Sentence
inflated
adjective- She objects to the inflated salaries that many professional athletes now receive.
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An under-inflated tire will run hot and can fail at high speed.
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Ray Magliozzi,
Arkansas Online,
15 May 2021
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What isn’t normal is his inflated sense that life is all about him.
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Abigail Van Buren,
oregonlive,
13 June 2023
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And while some health trends are a bit inflated—in this case, the hype is well-deserved.
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Kristine Thomason,
Vogue,
22 Jan. 2026
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The inflated globe was light and buoyant.
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Julian Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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On top of that, farmers had to deal with inflated feed and fuel costs.
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Danielle Wiener-Bronner,
CNN,
15 May 2023
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In this case, the spread is too inflated in favor of the favorite.
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Christopher Smith,
al,
1 Nov. 2021
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The bubble callers would say that each one of these stocks is inflated.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
3 May 2026
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Having fresh eggs in the backyard avoids the need to pay inflated egg prices.
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Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2025
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What can be said is that, in spite of the inflated prices, there is interest.
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Verity Burns,
WIRED,
22 Jan. 2025
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But that is out of sync with the inflated cost of living in the state's biggest city.
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OregonLive.com,
13 Feb. 2018
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In some cases, the culprit is an inflated sense of self-worth.
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Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
21 June 2019
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With that growth has come a barrage of inflated brand language.
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Robert Frank,
CNBC,
3 Aug. 2025
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How much will your inflated pumpkin spice latte cost this fall?
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Christian Orozco,
NBC news,
27 Aug. 2025
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Don’t pay an inflated price for a rose, let alone one that probably won’t grow well for you.
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Benjamin Whitacre,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Feb. 2023
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A lot of actors just had this inflated sense of importance to the world.
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Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Mar. 2026
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Some users may not care for the firmness level of a fully inflated airbed.
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Bestreviews,
Mercury News,
28 Oct. 2025
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The plan was to sell them on Amazon and eBay for inflated prices.
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Dave Lieber,
Dallas News,
19 Mar. 2020
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The best of them are listed at inflated prices on the resale market.
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Alice Cary,
Vogue,
24 Oct. 2024
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One is to just bite the bullet and pay the inflated prices—desperate times and all that.
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Ian Paul,
PCWorld,
16 Apr. 2018
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Someone throws an inflated beach ball in the air, and the session begins.
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Nicole Tsong,
The Seattle Times,
3 May 2017
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This model helps avoid the inflated charge masters that have long plagued the system.
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Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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But the stories have no sense of heightened ego or inflated heroics.
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Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
23 Dec. 2025
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The three dropped from an unknown height and were dragged through the water by the inflated parasail.
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Tina Burnside and Melissa Alonso,
CNN,
1 June 2022
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Gone are the days when cyclists needed just a helmet (maybe) and two inflated wheels to go for a ride.
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The Salt Lake Tribune,
31 May 2022
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And wages aren’t increasing fast enough to keep pace with inflated housing costs.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
8 Apr. 2026
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The chicken was unable to stay inflated in winds over 20 mph.
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Julia Prodis Sulek,
The Mercury News,
6 June 2024
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Fans and much of the media look at free agency as a chance to bring in some shiny new objects at inflated prices.
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Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2026
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In high-cost coastal cities, higher incomes tend to offset the inflated prices.
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Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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So this was his first chance to make some serious money, at least in the inflated world of baseball.
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Terry Pluto,
cleveland,
10 Apr. 2022
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