hot air
Example Sentences
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When AFP visited, explosions rang repeatedly through the burning hot air, as blasts split stone for mining.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
If some of the sudden national attention can feel like hot air, the local fight over these issues is about to get very real.
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026
Was it a prescient warning or a bunch of hot air?
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
He recalled donning tuxedos and carrying toy guns pretending to be James Bond on a European yacht vacation and soaring over the Serengeti in a hot air balloon during an East African safari.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026
Bubbles full of the hot air of American democracy, boiling up from the stacked vinyl platters inside.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
