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[air-ee] / ˈɛər i /




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One arrives every two minutes or so at each airy, pleasantly lit station.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

The yoga class is open to all levels, including beginners, but participants must reserve a spot and bring their own mats for both sessions, which will be held inside the museum’s spacious, airy lobby.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Katzenback said the airy feeling I had leaving my treatment was likely linked to temporary changes in fluid distribution, which can “make people feel less swollen or heavy, especially after travel.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Jess Jepson, 31, who lives in Manchester, says she's been dressing for the weather by wearing loose-fitting, light and airy clothes and opting for paler colours.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

She spent her free hours in the library, so wondrously well lit; the sweep of computers, the large, clean, airy reading spaces, the welcoming brightness of it all, seemed like a sinful decadence.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It ushered in a new kind of fun that was fresher, busier and airier than past listservs and chatrooms, the dank basements of internet interaction.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Texturally, the creamy soak gives the lower part of the cake a density that balances with its airier top half — as well as the light, homemade whipped cream.

From Seattle Times Oct. 8, 2023

More space lends an airier feel to the room, across the alley from Centrolina and newly dressed with salmon-colored chairs and fuchsia banquettes.

From Washington Post Nov. 21, 2022

Built in 2018 by London-based Quinn Architects, it features a brighter, airier floor plan.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2022

The deserted Ravenclaw common room was a wide, circular room, airier than any Harry had ever seen at Hogwarts.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

By contrast, Leithauser’s witty “Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry” blueprints the struts and girders, the iron armature, needed to create even the airiest lyric.

From Washington Post Apr. 27, 2022

The airiest batch with the best flavor hailed from the food mill, which came with its own pros and cons.

From Salon Oct. 10, 2021

She sailed through her dastardly wolf turn, obliterated all but one of her tricky connecting skills, and then positively flew off the apparatus with the highest, airiest double pike I have ever seen.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2021

Perhaps you have sometimes wondered, when you’ve run out of worthier things to think about, what that airiest of musicals, “The Fantasticks,” might be like if it developed a social conscience.

From New York Times Sep. 4, 2014

It was a pleasant, mellow-toned bell, but even the airiest, tinkling chime can be rung insistently and in a panic, and that was unmistakably the type of ringing this was.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood




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