Sentence examples for were inflated from inspiring English sources
verb
To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- You inflate a balloon by blowing air into it.
The construction estimates were inflated.
Those numbers were inflated by two quirks.
Q: Can you give a single reason why the January results were inflated?
"Bottomline was that both reserves replacement and production growth were inflated," he wrote in September 2002.
Advocates of the stronger requirements questioned those figures, saying they were inflated.
Mr. Rossotti's own report showed, however, that the overpayment estimates were inflated.
Some were inflated and held like balloons, others dangled limply from coats or posters.
"But it's increasingly clear that those expectations were inflated," he said.
Through March 2000, the period when revenues were inflated, the company met analyst expectations.
But executives got to pick the appraisers, and many of the values were inflated.
Don't think for a second that Stafford's 2011 numbers were inflated in any way.
