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let air out
verb as in despair
Example Sentences
In a mask with a working valve, the pressure inside the masks forces a small disk to open and let air out, but when you inhale the disk fits tightly against the hole and doesn’t allow air in.
We liked how easy it was to fill—its dual-valve inflation mechanism means it won’t let air out between breaths—and we appreciated that it weighed only about a fifth as much as the Travelrest, but the Travelrest’s 360-degree support made it too hard to go back to an open-ring design that offers no support in the front.
Her organization points to his time as a Milwaukee County trial judge when he rejected a plea bargain from four young African-American men, who let air out of tires on vehicles rented by Republican Party officials on election day in 2004.
Oumar stopped and let air out of his tires, for better traction in the soft sand.
In his first media appearance since a federal judge threw out his four-game suspension on Thursday, Brady resolutely refused to discuss the dispute in which the National Football League accused him of having conspired to let air out of footballs before a playoff game in January.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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