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Example sentences for "inflate"

Lexicographically close words:
inflammable; inflammation; inflammations; inflammatory; inflatable; inflated; inflates; inflating; inflation; inflationary
  1. Just as you bear down each time, inflate the lungs to their utmost, and hold the air in them until you have lowered the weights again.

  2. These open the ribs apart, broaden and deepen the chest, and inflate the lungs--the very things the consumptive needs.

  3. The contents of the larval skin having been removed, the next step is to inflate and dry the empty skin.

  4. Sacrifice, I say, sire, to the good of the state, all those whom such a daring deed would inflate with pride.

  5. The state of a sail when there is sufficient wind to inflate it, so as to advance the vessel in her course.

  6. To belly a sail is to inflate or fill it with the wind, so as to give a taut leech.

  7. After warning the swimmer, so that he may inflate his lungs, he is thrown into the water.

  8. These movements must be done slowly and gracefully, each swimmer allowing the other time to inflate the lungs before the next pullover is made.

  9. Some persons require a larger quantity of the powder in order to inflate the stomach.

  10. Schreiber, in order to determine the position of the stomach, was the first to introduce and inflate in this organ a rubber balloon (Deutsches Arch.

  11. Inflate lungs to their utmost capacity every third or fourth movement.

  12. In taking these movements, inflate the lungs to their fullest capacity, and hold the breath for half a minute while executing one or two movements.

  13. Neither tumultuous thoughts nor words influence her conduct; for these, when not the instruments of divine grace, only inflate the mind.

  14. It is neither by books nor curious research that we become learned in the science of God: these means of themselves give us but a vain knowledge, which only serves to confuse us and inflate us with pride.

  15. I would change the relation of master it now occupies to that of servant, where it properly belongs; and I would inflate the currency with it to the extent that we possess it.

  16. It takes but a little while to inflate a balloon with hot air.

  17. In three months, at most, I shall be at Zanzibar, where I will inflate my balloon, and from that point we shall launch ourselves.

  18. All that remained to do then, was to inflate the great gas bag.

  19. In the morning,” said the professor, “we will inflate the bag, and then there will be nothing more to detain us.

  20. Most people can not inflate the chest so as to increase its girth over two inches.

  21. By steady practice at his little pipe, he in about a year got so that he could inflate five whole inches.

  22. Usually in times of such trials currency has become worthless, or so much depreciated in value as to inflate the values of all the necessaries of life as compared with the currency.

  23. On the contrary, it may be perverted to inflate the currency.

  24. They enjoy, besides, a strange power; they can inflate the lower part of their body, and give it an extension so great that it becomes like an inflated ball, in which the real shape of the Fish is lost.

  25. Like the Globe-fish, they can erect their spines and inflate their bodies.

  26. To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency.

  27. When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes.

  28. To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity.

  29. Your over-estimate of my deeds ought rather to humble than to inflate me.

  30. Gambetta, on the other hand, was convinced that all explanations of this sort would only serve further to inflate the enemies of France and England in the Egyptian community, and would encourage their designs upon the law of liquidation.

  31. Inflate the lungs every fourth or fifth movement to their extreme capacity.

  32. Inflate the lungs to their fullest capacity one hundred times a day.

  33. Inflate the lungs to their fullest capacity at every third or fourth breath.

  34. Endeavor to inflate the lungs to their fullest capacity every third or fourth breath.

  35. How much will the hydrogen which is used to inflate that bag weigh?

  36. I have enough to fully inflate the balloon four times.

  37. What the mind wants is food it can grow upon, not stimulants which inflate it for a time with a fancied sense of power that has no real existence.


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