unventilated

Example Sentences

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Unless you’re constantly burning hundreds of candles in an unventilated space, however, he adds candle emissions are unlikely to cause health effects in humans.

From National Geographic • Sep. 27, 2023

Egyptian mummification, aimed at eternity, bears little resemblance to modern American embalming, which began during the Civil War, when bodies of soldiers had to be transported on hot, unventilated trains.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2022

As a neuroscientist living in an old, unventilated apartment with a 4-year-old, I can’t help but wonder: How does cooking my kid a quesadilla affect his brain?

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2022

The chaotic introduction of the closures in Amsterdam on Friday left some 600 passengers on two flights from South Africa crammed into planes and then unventilated rooms for about 30 hours.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2021

In Detroit, eight hundred suspects had been held in an unventilated corridor of a US Post Office building, where they had no beds or blankets and only one toilet for the entire group.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler