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
The system could eventually help ventilate greenhouses and other buildings without relying on fuel.
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
You want to validate their experiences, and you want them to ventilate about what they went through.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2023
He says, “Mason, we have to ventilate or we’re going to die in here.”
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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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
Speech ventilates our intellectual fire; Speech burnishes our mental magazine; Brightens, for ornament; and whets, for use.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
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
Washing hands regularly and ensuring indoor spaces are well ventilated helps, and we advise those who have symptoms and need to go out, to consider wearing a face covering in indoor public spaces.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
The Nightshade Hybrid grade includes leather-trimmed seating surfaces—baby formula cleans up quick!—and heated, ventilated front and mid-row seats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
More than two hundred screaming, sobbing, trembling and confused children jammed the badly ventilated hall, and, for lack of enough benches, most of us stood up like bristles.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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Homeowners say their builders have made mistakes as they attempt to put up homes as quickly and cheaply as possible, installing improperly sized HVACs, putting in windows incorrectly, or poorly ventilating attics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
But Mr Gallagher said if there is evidence a tenant is not ventilating the home correctly, then the landlord may not be responsible.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 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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