balloon
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Synonyms & Antonyms for balloon
Synonyms: Verb
accelerate, accumulate, appreciate, boom, build up, burgeon (also bourgeon), climb, enlarge, escalate, expand, gain, increase, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, rise, roll up, snowball, spread, swell, wax
Antonyms: Verb
contract, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, recede, wane
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Examples of balloon in a Sentence
Noun
I blew up a balloon but then it burst. brightly colored balloons and other party decorationsVerb
Their credit card debt ballooned to more than $5,000. the ballooning costs of education
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Cookie and Magic looked happy and in love on the deck of the yacht, which was decorated with colorful birthday balloons. — Jasmine Grant, Essence, "Cookie Johnson Threw Husband Magic Johnson A 60th Birthday Celebration He'll Never Forget," 15 Aug. 2019 The room in RightWay Ministries church was decorated with Mickey Mouse balloons and a white carpet sprinkled with rose petals leading to his casket. — Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, "Noah Sneed, 2, who died in hot van, remembered at his funeral as a funny, mischievous boy," 10 Aug. 2019 The pool was also covered with giant white balloons. — Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, "Travis Scott Completely Covers Kylie Jenner's House with Roses as Her Birthday Celebrations Commence," 5 Aug. 2019 The activities room was decorated with balloons, and music played on a boom box. — Los Angeles Times, "Column One: He’d been kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious?," 1 Aug. 2019 At the end of the funeral, family members followed the white casket, decorated with balloons. — Laurel Demkovich, Washington Post, "‘This is not normal’: Hundreds remember 11-year-old Karon Brown, urge end to gun violence," 29 July 2019 All eyes turn to the skies in Canton this weekend for the Balloon Classic with colorful hot-air balloons and fireworks lighting up the night. — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, "9 things to do in Cleveland on Saturday, July 27," 27 July 2019 Doing so meant controlling the blood supply to the area with balloons and catheters before actually removing the blade from Gregg’s face. — Fox News, "Kansas teen miraculously survives 10-inch knife in face: 'It was really shocking'," 17 June 2019 As graduates strolled across the green, their proud families waited with balloons, stuffed animals and flowers in fiery shades of orange, yellow and pink. — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, "Danny Glover receives honorary degree at Goodwin College commencement; student speaker shares lesson from his years of addiction, homelessness," 8 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
But business investment, the ballooning federal deficit and trade concerns are creating pressure that White House officials have struggled to explain away. — Damian Paletta, Washington Post, "The month a shadow fell on Trump’s economy," 22 Aug. 2019 Or perhaps some stars collapse without ever ballooning into supergiant stars, or solitary black holes meet one another and bind to form pairs. — Quanta Magazine, "To Make Two Black Holes Collide, Try Three," 15 Aug. 2019 The anthem controversy quickly ballooned into a national story. — Gillian Brockell, courant.com, "A national anthem protest ruined Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s NBA career. Now he’s being honored by LSU.," 23 July 2019 As the days dragged on, what might have simply been an inconvenient blip ballooned into a major incident. — Wired, "Europe's Weeklong Satellite Outage Is Over—But Still Serves as a Warning," 18 July 2019 In recent years, the small eastern Mediterranean country has buckled under ballooning public debt, a decaying infrastructure and political infighting. — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, "Newspaper devotes entire issue to 'wake-up call' for the country," 8 Aug. 2019 City officials have for years blamed fire department staffing shortages on salary and benefit packages that fail to compete with surrounding jurisdictions, an issue that has led to ballooning overtime costs. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "San Diego City Council restores firefighter death, disability benefits," 6 Aug. 2019 The spending has lifted the economy but with ballooning consumer debt that could help start a recession. — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, "Russians Pull Out Credit Cards, and Consumer Debt Spirals," 5 Aug. 2019 The arrests come on the heels of the state overhauling the parole system, helping lower the state's prison population and ballooning the ranks of parolees. — NBC News, "6 killings in two months allegedly by people on parole in Pennsylvania prompt calls for review," 25 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'balloon.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.