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Example sentences for "inflating"

Lexicographically close words:
inflammatory; inflatable; inflate; inflated; inflates; inflation; inflationary; inflationists; inflect; inflected
  1. Now if the foreign markets for our products are reduced only one fourth by the effect of a redundant currency, inflating here the cost of production and of living, the result would be most disastrous to our industry.

  2. The inflating process being continued, the blood next began to run in streams from the lungs into the quiescent heart.

  3. Cartwright mentioned, in the same letter, a case in which his faith in my theory had saved the life of a breathless infant--inducing him to unwonted perseverance in inflating its lungs.

  4. And now, though with no nervous haste, the work of arranging and inflating the balloon was commenced and for some days steadily proceeded with.

  5. This was the LAST link--merely the last one, and no bigger than the others; but as we gaze back at it through the inflating mists of our imagination, it looks as big as the orbit of Neptune.

  6. He stopped inflating the globe, and answered,-- "Ai!

  7. Many of the species, which are usually fixed, are still capable of swimming and of inflating their suctorial disks; therefore it is by no means certain that the free habit of Minyas cyanea is constant.

  8. They chose the English side, and inflating their balloon with hydrogen at Dover, boldly cast off, and immediately drifted out to sea.

  9. To him the art is indebted for the introduction of carbureted-hydrogen, or coal gas, as the means of inflating balloons.

  10. The gases at present employed for inflating balloons are either too expensive or too heavy.

  11. They may readily be compressed to a small fraction of their volume as is noticed on inflating a pneumatic tire.

  12. The common condensing pump is the kind used for inflating tires.

  13. The noise made by inflating the cheeks, and then forcibly expelling the wind by a sudden blow with the hands.

  14. If his bellows had only a single opening, that through which they delivered the blast upon the fire, then in inflating them he would draw back into them the hot air and ashes from the fire.

  15. Being at rest he can manage his dress the better, inflating it so that he is able to get his air with greater ease and regularity.

  16. What was William Gardiner's dismay, when he found that he had omitted to put up a part of the direction for inflating the balloon.

  17. The phosphoric matches were then displayed; the method of inflating the balloon described; and its beautiful appearance and ascent represented, in glowing language.

  18. Both sexes have the power of inflating the loose appendages of the head and neck.

  19. All pigeons have in some measure the power of inflating the crop with air.

  20. Karl was the only one of the three who knew anything about a balloon, or the mode of inflating it.

  21. It was by it that the hot air was to be admitted inside the balloon, for the purpose of inflating it.

  22. Now-a-days, fire is not used for inflating balloons.

  23. The structure of the trachea and lungs may be illustrated, by taking these parts of a calf or sheep and inflating the air-vesicles by forcing air into the windpipe with a pipe or quill.

  24. Care must be taken in the act of inflating not to unduly extend the larval skin, thus producing a distortion, and also to dry it thoroughly.

  25. In inflating larvae the first step is to carefully remove the contents of the larval skin.

  26. A comparatively inexpensive arrangement for inflating larvae is a modification of that described in the "Entomologische Nachrichten," 1879, vol.

  27. Several fish of the genera Diodon and Tetraodon, beset with sharp spines, which they can erect by inflating themselves with air.

  28. A plectognathous fish, covered with spines, which has the power of inflating its body till it becomes almost globular.

  29. From this side of the hood a roof, which consists of burnt tiles, extends to the first long wall; and this part of the building contains the bellows, the machinery for compressing them, and the instruments for inflating them.

  30. Behind the second long wall are ten pairs of bellows, two machines for compressing them, and twenty instruments for inflating them.

  31. When he blows through the pipe he blows as he would if inflating a bubble; he blows into the blow-pipe as often as it is necessary, removing it from his mouth to re-fill his cheeks, so that his breath does not draw the flames into his mouth.

  32. The inflating apparatus was put together with extreme care, and the pipes issuing from the balloon were securely fitted to the cylindrical case.

  33. Such an envelope as this could retain the inflating fluid for any length of time.


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