balloon
Example Sentences
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The projected price tag has already ballooned from $200 million to $400 million, but those numbers have almost no meaning since they don’t correlate to any plans that would generate an estimate.
From Salon
Its shift to green energy—where it paid peak prices for assets—was unpopular among investors, and its debt ballooned.
Others held balloons emblazoned with pictures of bumblebees, a reference to the young girl's nickname "Matilda Bee".
From Barron's
A postcard from Pandora would showcase its floating mountains, bioluminescent forests and sentient hot-air balloons.
From Los Angeles Times
Across the street, some people began laying out bouquets of flowers, balloons and an Australian flag at the corner of a primary school, in an impromptu memorial for the dead.
From BBC
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