deflating

Example Sentences

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Deflating news from Spain now, and it’s sad faces all over the shop as Fernando Torres is supposedly told that he won’t be staying at Atlético Madrid next season.

From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2016

Deflating footballs intentionally would almost certainly involve someone other than an athlete, and would without question be surreptitious.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2015

Deflating the breathless Arrested Development hype in the build-up to season four, Jason Bateman has said that The Office UK was a "thousand times funnier".

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

Deflating as these anticlimaxes are, they still do not alter the achievement of what has gone before.

From Time Magazine Archive

Deflating its balloons, the onboard computer reported the successful landing back to Earth.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir