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In the kitchen, large accordion windows open to a patio, giving the back of the house an airy, indoor-outdoor feel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Featuring an expansive open-concept living and dining space, the oversized windows and light-colored fixtures throughout the home create a light and airy atmosphere.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Stone work has been renovated and a partition wall between the two houses has been knocked down to create a light and airy space which shows off the historic architecture and living plants.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
It’s an airy scene, suffused with mystery and light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The darkness receded from it, until it seemed to shine in the centre of a globe of airy crystal, and the hand that held it sparkled with white fire.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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It ushered in a new kind of fun that was fresher, busier and airier than past listservs and chatrooms, the dank basements of internet interaction.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
The small kitchen retains its midcentury charm, but open shelving above the counter provides an airier, more contemporary cupboard to show off Miranda-Martin’s dish and glassware collection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Textural variety was prominent, with garments ranging from soft, stretch-infused woven pieces to those boasting a lighter, airier feel, thanks to special weaving techniques.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
More space lends an airier feel to the room, across the alley from Centrolina and newly dressed with salmon-colored chairs and fuchsia banquettes.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
He’d added the skylights, painted everything white to make it brighter and airier.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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By contrast, Leithauser’s witty “Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry” blueprints the struts and girders, the iron armature, needed to create even the airiest lyric.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022
The airiest batch with the best flavor hailed from the food mill, which came with its own pros and cons.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
She sailed through her dastardly wolf turn, obliterated all but one of her tricky connecting skills, and then positively flew off the apparatus with the highest, airiest double pike I have ever seen.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2021
Perhaps you have sometimes wondered, when you’ve run out of worthier things to think about, what that airiest of musicals, “The Fantasticks,” might be like if it developed a social conscience.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2014
It was a pleasant, mellow-toned bell, but even the airiest, tinkling chime can be rung insistently and in a panic, and that was unmistakably the type of ringing this was.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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