let air out

Example Sentences

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Oumar stopped and let air out of his tires, for better traction in the soft sand.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017

For hardcore football fans, figuring out if a Patriots employee did indeed deliberately let air out of the footballs in order to gain advantage over the Indianapolis Colts has become the mystery of the year.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2015

Ben Affleck, Tom Brady, John Krasinski, Chris Evans and others bust out their best blue-collar Boston accents to assure us Brady did not let air out of the balls.

From Time • Jan. 30, 2015

To do that you have to let air out of the tire.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2013

I asked her if ‘being let down’ was like coming back to earth with a bump if you let air out of a hot-air balloon too fast, and she said yes, it was like that.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd