(a.) Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microscopically, lungs were airless and congested with hyaline membrane formation in patent terminal airways.
(2) Various types of high-pressure equipment, including airless paint sprayers, hydraulic apparatus and grease guns, are used in industry, in farming and in the home.
(3) When we meet in her small, airless office in the headquarters of the Assemblée Nationale in Paris, her hair is swept back in a ponytail, her clothes are fashionable but discreet: a black top with zip detailing at the shoulders, tailored beige trousers, boots with a sensible heel.
(4) Using vegetable or livestock waste to generate biogas is now common and growing fast as cattle farmers and food companies in Europe and the US are encouraged with subsidies to set up anaerobic, or airless, digesters like Ta Quang Nha’s rudimentary one.
(5) They’re like the sort of expat communities JG Ballard writes about: airless and sanitised pockets of a home country in a foreign land.
(6) Looking back now I would have started out with far less optimism had I known how many hours I would spend in airless rooms, how many animated discussions, how many sleepless nights mulling over the pros and cons of settling the case.
(7) This is an evil place, as airless and soulless as the inside of Pamela Geller’s head.
(8) The airless paint gun delivers paint at pressures approximating 3,000 psi.
(9) Then human rights activists gathered horrific stories of torture - with former inmates describing being held in airless cells, or in dark mud pits dug out from the ground, often knee-deep in water.
(10) In between, there is lots of interesting and illuminating stuff, particularly when Wood talks about why he left "airless" literary London, sickened by his monitoring of "who's up, who's down"; at another point, Messud offers that only one of them can work in the house at a time, otherwise they run short of air.
(11) We can’t have the windows open because of the fumes so in the summer the house feels pretty airless.
(12) High pressure injection equipment such as airless paint sprayers, high pressure grease guns, and fuel injection apparatus constitute a serious safety hazard resulting in significant morbidity.
(13) It therefore has no idea whether the projected £300m spending reduction in its own budget is outweighed by additional costs elsewhere.” *** Another day in court, and a different litigant in person is sitting in a small airless room just off the main lobby.
(14) We are in a bland, airless meeting room at the London offices of Baby Cow, Steve Coogan's production company (which is behind Gavin & Stacey).
(15) Specifically, two new airless polyurethane foam tires (circular and tapered cross-section) were compared to both a molded polyisoprene tire and a rubber pneumatic tire.
(16) It was sweaty and airless, buzzing with mosquitoes, and it was here his emotions came to the surface.
(17) Given the slightest chance, they will squeeze themselves into cars and airless lorries.
(18) Boarding passes in hand, the three men climbed the stairs to the second floor, an airless hall lined with newsagents, coffee shops and souvenir stores.
(19) In Blackburn's new market, a strange, sanitised place in the airless basement of a shopping centre, Jack Straw is buying fresh fish for his dinner and I am trying hard not to feel too much like a spare part.
(20) For many, the so-called Fan Fests remain airless experiences.