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Example sentences for "deflated"

Lexicographically close words:
definitor; definitors; deflagrates; deflagrating; deflagration; deflation; deflect; deflected; deflecting; deflection
  1. He deflated his chest, spread his heels, and ceased to draw in his abdomen.

  2. He was a long youth with a rather subdued and deflated look, as though the burden of the van Tuyl millions was more than his frail strength could support.

  3. At any rate, they were not hurrying to attack the unique, two-legged bugs by the deflated acid bag.

  4. Both the semi-rigid and the non-rigid have the very great advantage of being easily deflated and packed up.

  5. The Eta, having been inflated and deflated several times owing to the poor quality of the envelope, attempted to fly to Dunkirk in November, 1914.

  6. Three days later, owing to heavy winds, the ship had to be deflated and was taken back to Farnborough.

  7. At the outbreak of war she was lying deflated in the shed at Farnborough.

  8. The envelope, however, consumed an enormous amount gas and for this reason the ship was deflated and struck off the list of active ships.

  9. The Gamma and the Delta were both lying deflated at Farnborough at the outbreak of the war, and in the case of the latter the car was found to be beyond repair, and she was accordingly deleted.

  10. I suppose it fell into the sea and got wetted with salt water and heavy, and so became deflated and sank.

  11. Lord Roberts B, even in his partially deflated condition in his shed, was a fine thing to stare up at.

  12. That's all right," I said, and stared up through the tree to see what I could of the deflated and crumpled remains that had once been Lord Roberts A festooned on the branches it had broken.

  13. Close at hand was his now nearly deflated balloon and the car on its side looking minutely small, a mere broken toy, a shrivelled bubble, in contrast with the gigantic bulk of the nearer airship.

  14. Another German burnt, and one badly deflated by the prow of an antagonist, flopped out of action southward.

  15. In order to do this weight had to be dropped, and Kurt was detailed with a dozen men to climb down among the wreckage of the deflated air-chambers and cut the stuff clear, portion by portion, as the airship sank.

  16. He flung the deflated burning rags of cushion aside, whipped off his jacket and sprang at the flames with a shout.

  17. When at last the Graf von Winterfold left Bert Smallways, he left him in an extremely deflated condition, with all his little story told.

  18. Bert repeated as they stood behind Logan while he pumped up a deflated tyre.

  19. And the gruesome deflated forms of several helmeted figures.

  20. Fort Pero d'Anhaya, sleeping for the first time in many a night with an infantile smile on his countenance that suggested a half-deflated balloon.

  21. Then the start was made, with the bag partially deflated and lying in limp, wet folds on its framework.

  22. On the outskirts of the town they came to earth and deflated the balloon bag, since the hospital stood in a group of trees and it would have been impossible to make a landing there.

  23. Bother the old grouch," muttered Tom, as he climbed back into the Wondership, the bag of which was deflated just enough to keep her at rest on the roof.

  24. A purple-red mass of blood, it lay deflated and flabby.

  25. We could see, revolving around the wreck, and motionless against its dome, those horrible flabby, deflated suits where the delicate Erentz mechanism had failed.

  26. Maybe we'll win us another prize," Ramos laughed, touching the crinkly substance of their first bubb, hanging like a deflated balloon over the ceiling pole.

  27. He felt the texture of his deflated bubb.

  28. But he had first deflated and then inflated his lungs to their fullest capacity, and he felt sure he could remain at least three minutes, possibly longer, without coming to the surface.

  29. As has been said, Joe deflated his lungs just before he took his dive.

  30. While Jim Tracy had been speaking Joe had deflated his lungs, and now he took a full, long and deep breath.

  31. Meanwhile, my readings and reflections on Kesey had located Rama within a cultural context which, like the knowledge that the Wizard of Oz was a man behind a curtain, largely deflated his projected images and metaphors.

  32. I also found Atmananda's deflated view of himself a relief.

  33. With a sharp hiss the compressed gas rushed from the containing cylinder into the deflated balloon.

  34. Here it is," was the answer, and a deflated rubberized silk bag was produced from a locker back of the pilot's seat.

  35. We carry with us a deflated balloon, which will contain about two hundred cubic yards of lifting gas.

  36. By pumping air into these the balloon envelope could be filled out again when it had become partly deflated by loss of gas, for one of the great problems was to maintain the shape of the balloon after a quantity of gas had escaped.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deflated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.