The soft doughnuts deflated a bit as I ate, pressing the glaze into the chicken and making the concoction easier to handle, though I still went through seven napkins eating only half of it.
According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, animals of the land, sea and air are equally susceptible to mistaking deflated balloons for food, or, arguably worse, getting tangled up and strangled by the ribbon attached to it.
Asian investors, for example, are streaming into the top of the London property market, where they find deflated prices, which they pay with a devalued currency.
Sarnia Police, the Canadian Coast Guard on the Great Lakes and the Canadian Red Cross quickly came to the rescue, plucking people out of the water when their floatation devices deflated.
A new survey has found that 53 per cent of women suffer after all the holiday hype comes to an end, with a shocking 29 per cent revealing that they feel 'deflated' and 'demotivated.
Rather than feel deflated by this fact, celebrate it.
Hunched over his cane, the fortune-teller runs a gnarled hand across the surface of his deflated cheeks.
I'm not deflated.
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.