hot-air balloon
Example Sentences
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They posed in front of props such as a hot-air balloon, an upright piano or a staircase going to nowhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Pointing to a poster of Wallace and Gromit floating over Bristol in a hot-air balloon, Lord reflected on their appeal.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
From there, chunks of bedroom and kitchen silently floated over the power lines and were lowered into place, workers twisting the walls into alignment with hanging guidelines like from a hot-air balloon.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2025
The novel trots the globe, from Barbados to Virginia to Nova Scotia to the Arctic to London to Morocco, and besides the hot-air balloon, includes the invention of the public aquarium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
I felt as if I might lift off the ground, like a hot-air balloon.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
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