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
Organizers should also find ways to ventilate the event space, including, potentially, by reducing seat capacity.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2023
“The fireplace used up all the oxygen. I’ve got to ventilate this place.”
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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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
All this I saw peeping through a sort of meat-safe which ventilates the top of the cabin, and very happy and hot did the people seem below.
From Little Travels and Roadside Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
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
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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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
By ventilating indoor spaces, guaranteeing paid sick leave, delivering booster shots to people’s doorsteps and making it easier to get treated, the government could help people make choices with less fear of catastrophe, they said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2022
With the hook stuck in one of the ventilating holes in the top of my light, I lifted it back out on the ice and set it down.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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