AIRLESS


Meaning of AIRLESS in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a hot, airless kitchen

Hales lived in a tiny, airless room with one small window that wouldn't open.

The classroom was airless and uncomfortably hot.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

From outside, the sounds of a game of cricket floated into the hot airless room.

He preferred the airless quiet of the tunnel to the numbing of his skull.

He was alone in an airless , partially disabled ship, all communication with Earth cut off.

It was his building, Lewis' s. It was like his tomb or mausoleum, almost airless .

It was hot, airless , badly lit, and generally had a cramped below-decks feel to it.

Oliver stared around the dark, airless shop at the coffins, some finished, some only half-made.

The room is airless , the windows too high for him to open or to see out.

The rooms smelled musty and airless , and wallpaper was peeling in great patches.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.