ventilate
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"They are asking estate agents very practical questions about temperatures during the last heatwave, whether it is possible to ventilate the home at night, and whether people sleep well in the bedrooms," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
In the future, the technology could help ventilate greenhouses or residential buildings without conventional energy sources.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
After turning off the burners and opening windows to ventilate the apartment, the team contacted firefighters and stayed with the woman until they arrived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
While triple glazing could well become standard in the future, he adds that people must also properly ventilate their homes, to reduce condensation and damp, especially when retrofitting or sealing up older properties.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
He began by advising her to moderate the rigor of her mourning, to ventilate the house, to forgive the world for the death of José Arcadio.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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As we followed a trail through waist-high grass, the sun was hot and a ridge blocked the breeze, the steady trade wind that reliably ventilates the Caribbean.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2015
The mastoid portion of the temporal bone, which can be felt as a bump in the skull behind the pinna, also contains air, which ventilates through the middle ear.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Like a healer, he helps us to come to terms with the miseries he ventilates on our behalf.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2010
And when their various pathologies grow suffocating, the director of photography, Michael Hardwick, ventilates the movie with pure Alaskan light and scrubbed, cerulean skies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2010
Wherever possible the open fireplace is to be preferred to the stove for the reason that it very thoroughly ventilates the room.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris
Keep them ventilated during the day and, where possible, close internal doors between the conservatory and the rest of the house.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Durga Devi finds no relief after a day working in New Delhi's sweltering summer, because her poorly ventilated home radiates trapped heat, leaving her bedroom as hot as 45 degrees at night.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
After an 11-hour surgery last September, Etta needed to be ventilated and her abdomen covered with a mesh as it couldn't be fully closed due to swelling, but she now has a healthy liver.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
The Calligraphy is a bower of abundance, where visitors can recline in plushly padded, heated and ventilated captain’s chairs, dressed in high-grade Nappa leather: the Relaxation Mode seating package.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
A 1905 State Prison Improvement Commission found the cells damp, too small, and badly ventilated, concluding, “verily, this is far worse than living in a sewer.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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These are necessary for ventilating certain rooms, like your kitchen and bathroom.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2023
Fortunately, we can reduce that risk by ventilating buildings and filtering the air we breathe.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 20, 2022
These include “changing guidelines on ventilating patients, the use of high dose steroids in hospitalized patients, and identifying previously unknown or overlooked safety issues with some novel antiviral therapies,” Kheriaty declared.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
To reduce methane concentrations, large fans draw air into and through the mine, ventilating the methane into the atmosphere.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
“Mister,” he said, “you don’t need no ventilating holes in that there door.”
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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