| About 10 minutes later, small air pockets throughout the mattress begin inflating and deflating to produce a gentle rocking motion. |
| Each learned in her own way how to confront her husband about his shortcomings, limitations, or failures without compounding them or deflating him. |
| I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit. |
| Tesha raised an eyebrow and poked Marl in the stomach, deflating his puffed-up chest. |
| The balloons tied to the gatepost are slowly deflating, but have yet to be removed. |
| It took police one and a half hours to extract the lorry by deflating its tyres. |
