unventilated

Example Sentences

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Unless you’re constantly burning hundreds of candles in an unventilated space, however, he adds candle emissions are unlikely to cause health effects in humans.

From National Geographic • Sep. 27, 2023

Devarakonda hypothesizes that the higher rates for never-smoker lung cancer in females in Asia could be related to their indoor workspaces — in unventilated kitchens while burning gas or firewood.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2023

As a neuroscientist living in an old, unventilated apartment with a 4-year-old, I can’t help but wonder: How does cooking my kid a quesadilla affect his brain?

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2022

Many of those who died, Ms Lapointe said, had been living alone in unventilated homes.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2021

In Detroit, eight hundred suspects had been held in an unventilated corridor of a US Post Office building, where they had no beds or blankets and only one toilet for the entire group.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler