1.   Pataki delivered his speech in the breathy cadences that mark his oratorical style, making points of emphasis by pumping air rather than volume into his voice.

2.   Simply cutting taxes, he said, is like pumping air into a flat tire without patching up the holes first.

3.   What if he had known that each use of the drug is like pumping air into an inner tube?

4.   A British company displayed sunglasses for hay-fever sufferers, designed to prevent pollen granules entering the eyes by pumping filtered air through holes in the frame.

5.   By pumping air into the yellow bags, they raised the submarine, which was taken in tow by a tug boat.