His skull was caved in on the right side like a deflated football, and his lips were purple-black.

The films are rated by footballs, from three down to one; the deflated football speaks for itself.

The black sand around him is littered with the few things that are left of Lalomanu village: a child's dress, an empty suitcase, a deflated football.

Returning to the airdrome, Sunley saw Sergeant "Ginger" Green, a physical-training instructor and a "gentle giant of a man," tossing a deflated football up in the air.

Spent and aching, Green slowly removed the deflated football from inside his camouflage smock and painfully threw it away.

Or survived for long with a head like a deflated football.

He was shrinking before my eyes like a deflated football.

She looked around into a fare that compared badly to a deflated football.

In it, Ms. Dillard describes a little green frog "[shrinking] . . . like a deflated football" - sucked dry by a giant water bug.

He carried something that looked like a deflated football at his right hip.