Puffing up

Usage examples of inflating.

Alternately deflating and inflating its bladders, it turned back toward the city proper as it rose.

Fully inflating their airsacs, they curved their stiffened airfoils downward as far as possible and rose straight up into the sky, leaving their injured comrade to beat out the remainder of its life against the rocks below.

Despite a face which cellulite was busy inflating, she had a petit nose.

Plasma rushed out of the gap, inflating flamboyantly as it liberated itself from the constricting flux lines.

After that, instead of inflating them with oxygen, they were pumped full with a thick gel, expelling all the air.

But successive changes of management and ownership had seen it decay badly over the last two decades as too much of its cash flow had been diverted from maintaining standards to inflating shareholder dividends.

It was more interesting than the pamphlet about inflating dinghies, but only just.

The wind was inflating his shirt like a spinnaker and his face was pinched with the pain of the icy gusts.

I don't know what happened next exactly, but suddenly Harvey - still in shirt-sleeves, with the wind inflating him like a Michelin man - was running.

Now it was a green point ringed in red, a yellow-white halo, glare green and expanding, an inflating violet sphere, poof, gone in seconds.

A handful were green and blue, inflating as their temperature rose, until one or another made a brief nova.

They had him pinned at last, and now they were inflating over him something that proved to be a plastic bubble holding air.