When his eyes snapped open he was floating like a feather in open, airless space.
It is a broad and well-trodden road; beaten smooth by the feet of the hurrying generations that tread sharp upon one another's heels as they press forward out of grey and airless nothingness into the warm atmosphere of existence.
The brilliant orange of superheated rock had quickly cooled in the near-absolute zero of airless space.
They opened the airlocks to pass through the manufacturing center, and then into the airlesslaunching pad.
The Tempest maneuvered carefully through the gaping orifice left when Kimball's ship had blown the massive airlock, and set down inside the airless docking arena of the asteroid.
It was a dreary little airless apartment with a broken blind, intended for a waiting-room but fallen into disuse, and only partially furnished, the corners piled with great tin boxes containing episcopal correspondence.
Michael closed with him instantly, but not before Wentworth had seen the lightning in his eyes; and the two men struggled furiously in the dim, airless little room with its broken blind.
It is perhaps natural that we should love very deeply those who have had the power to release us momentarily from the airless prison of our own egotism.
To get rich quick the nation had to be reorganised on an industrial basis, and the people were swept out of the green of England and out of the straths and valleys of Scotland into sunless, airless cities.
In the one city you find in one street mansions such as a Roman emperor could only desire in vain; and a few yards away a street of crowded closes and airless dugouts and fetid tenements where little children perish.
The moon's prisoner, a captive in her airless caves; alone on her dead white plains; searching for ever in vain for the governess; wandering alone and terrified.
We struggled with the gyro for about forty minutes, even going outside to get at the airlesstube section beneath this sealed cabin.
Peter's body flashed past, caught up short by the cord, and also hit the body of airless space on the outer side of the channel.
He had to make some sort of space suit, something that would permit him to venture out on the nearly airless surface long enough to set up a signal that astronomers might see.
Yes, as he talked across the airless gloom of that little back room, in some small way I caught the splendor of his vision.
Life's much simpler in a thatched cottage than in a dome on the airless Moon, easier to understand when the Villains are all pure black-hearted villains, and the Heroes are all pure White Souled Heroes.
The intense darkness, the airless heat, and a second shock of earthquake (faintly felt in the ship at her present distance from the land) warned the mate to be cautious.
In airless space, there was nothing to carry the sound.
The Planeteers were trained in the use of fire bombs, tanks of chemicals that burned even in an airless world.
At that, even an airless room full of natives was preferable to spending a night outside.
No sooner had the Polaris touched the dry airless ground than the air-lock hatch was opened.
On the opposite side of the airless satellite, Roger and Astro were busy digging a hole in the hard surface.
On the surface of the planetoid, giant mushrooming clouds appeared climbing into the airless void.
Paying scant attention to the crush of sudden acceleration, Tom gave the ship all the power she could take for the climb out of Tara's atmosphere, and soon they were rocketing through the airless void of space.
Again Tom relayed the order to Astro, and a moment later the great ship hung silently in the airless void of space, a scant half mile from the station.
But in airless space, of course, no sound was transmitted.
Vast Saturn and his multiple moons, hung against the black and all-but-airless star-curtain.
It is to-day practically an airlessand waterless desert, alternating between the heat of its long day and the intense cold of its long night.
Mercury, the innermost and smallest of the planets, measuring only some 3400 miles in diameter, is, not unexpectedly, an airless wilderness.
There were endless flights of shiny stairs, and endless stuffy, airless rooms, until we came to a door which she flung open, disclosing the nursery.
Netherwoods is anairless place at this season of the year.
At that moment the sun's rim appeared at the landscape's jagged edge, and on this side of airless Vesta complete night was transformed to complete day, as abruptly as if a switch had been turned.
In contrast to the airless desolation outside, the interior of this five-acre greenhouse was the one most desirable place to be.
Sluggishly the electrolysis apparatus broke down the water, discharging the hydrogen as waste through a pipe, out over the airless surface of Vesta--but freeing the oxygen under the plastic roof.
On this airless piece of a planet, an enemy could sneak up on you, almost without stealth.
Around him, under the airless sky of space, stretched desolation that he'd of course known about beforehand--but which now had assumed that special and terrible starkness of reality.
There was a low, cracked wall on the other side of the hill, and beyond the wall stood the roofless ruins of a stone house, silent and gray in the airless scene.
These were aimed away from the Sun into the dark airless sky and toward the other planets.
Moon instruments claimed no decrease whatsoever in the amount of sunlight reaching the arid, airless surface of the Earth's only satellite.
A thin layer of cosmic dust lay over the surface, such as would be found on any airless world.
The layer of dust, the consequences of an airless world exposed without protection to the endless fall of cosmic particles, was indeed not the level, undisturbed surface it should have been.
Without you, life would be as empty as that airless void you speak of.
It's clean--burned clean by the sun and scoured clean by the airless zero of space.
Phobos is an airless world, and yet so small that rockets are impractical.
Just the tiny disk of Deimos peering over the sharp peak of the nearest ridge, the black velvet sky outlining the curvature of this airless moon.
She entered a room that was black as coal and unsweetened as an airless cellar.
And even Mother Plume, pacing her airless room at the further end of the village and tapping her ebony stick upon the floor, turned suspiciously, as at a passing flash of light that warmed her for a sudden instant as it went.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "airless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
