hot air

Example Sentences

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By Thursday, the supply of cooler air will be cut off as hot air resurges from France once again.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

If some of the sudden national attention can feel like hot air, the local fight over these issues is about to get very real.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026

Was it a prescient warning or a bunch of hot air?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

A buddy asks if he’s being sarcastic, and the kid collapses like a hot air balloon: “I don’t even know anymore.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

He stood out like a hot air balloon in an otherwise empty field.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman