airy
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One arrives every two minutes or so at each airy, pleasantly lit station.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The yoga class is open to all levels, including beginners, but participants must reserve a spot and bring their own mats for both sessions, which will be held inside the museum’s spacious, airy lobby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Katzenback said the airy feeling I had leaving my treatment was likely linked to temporary changes in fluid distribution, which can “make people feel less swollen or heavy, especially after travel.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
"It's all a bit airy fairy," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
I felt I could reach out and touch it; it was so unlike home, where the high ceilings gave our rooms an airy stillness.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
“They can work well in any space, but in a small living space they have the benefit of taking up less space than cabinetry and provide a lighter, airier feel,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
Built in 2018 by London-based Quinn Architects, it features a brighter, airier floor plan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
A much better bread ratio, perhaps because the crumb is airier than that of a brioche bun, so it felt less like mouthing a bunch of wall insulation.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022
The deserted Ravenclaw common room was a wide, circular room, airier than any Harry had ever seen at Hogwarts.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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 Metropolitan Opera has closed most of its concession areas, but its bar in the airiest section of the Grand Tier is now open, along with its restaurant.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
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
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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With the Fire on High
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