ventilate

Example Sentences

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In the future, the technology could help ventilate greenhouses or residential buildings without conventional energy sources.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026

After turning off the burners and opening windows to ventilate the apartment, the team contacted firefighters and stayed with the woman until they arrived.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Organizers should also find ways to ventilate the event space, including, potentially, by reducing seat capacity.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2023

This can cause people to snore, or it can also completely obstruct the airway and cause people to not be able to ventilate well.

From Scientific American • Jun. 29, 2023

He began by advising her to moderate the rigor of her mourning, to ventilate the house, to forgive the world for the death of José Arcadio.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez